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Madagascar
Ignazio Danti1565
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "Madagascar, today called Island of San Lorenzo by the Portoguese, located in the Ocean near Cape of Good Hope in front of Mozambique, is one of the biggest discovered in our times. One can find there Silver, Amber, Ginger, carnations, Saffron of the sort you find in the Indies. There is also a lot of Honey and sugar cane, lemons, cytrus and oranges. The inhabitants of said island are proud and beastly men." Photo: Rabatti&Domingie
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Details
- Title: Madagascar
- 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: w56.5 x h113 cm (Complete)
- Original title: Madagascar
- 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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