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North-western India
Ignazio Dantiaround 1574
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "This part of India out of the Gange reaches out in length up to Catai and there are many important things…In the mounts of Ava there are beautiful rubies, and in the mounts of Salgatgu there are also diamonds. In Caindu and in the nearby cities you exchange corals with money and in the sea they dive for beautiful pearls." Photo: Rabatti & Domingie
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- Title: North-western India
- Creator Lifespan: 1536 - 1586
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Alatri
- Creator Birth Place: Perugia
- Date Created: around 1574
- cartographer: Egnazio Danti
- Theme: map
- Physical Dimensions: w61 x h115 cm (Complete)
- Original title: India nord occidentale
- 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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