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Great Bretain and Ireland
Ignazio Danti1565
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "This first painting of Europe shows England and Scotland as one island… The chief city of England is London and the one of Scotland is Edinburgh…The said island is filled with gold, silver and other metals, but mostly of very fine tin that looks like silver. Similarly it is rich with wool, meats and fodder of many kinds." Photo: Rabatti&Domingie
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- Title: Great Bretain and Ireland
- Creator Lifespan: 1536 - 1586
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Alatri
- Creator Birth Place: Perugia
- Date Created: 1565
- cartographer: Egnazio Danti
- Theme: map
- Physical Dimensions: w116 x h115 cm (Complete)
- Original title: Gran Bretagna e Irlanda
- Historical information: The panels in the Maps'Room are 53. 30 out of these were realized by the dominican friar from Perugia Egnazio Danti, the court cosmographer from 1553 to 1575; the remaining 23 were realized by the olivetan monk Stefano Bonsignori from 1576 to 1586. The panels show all the world as known at the time.
- Type: oil painting on wood
- Rights: Comune di Firenze, Comune di Firenze
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