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Greenland
Ignazio Dantiaround 1565
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
Firenze, Italy
The scroll reads: "We do not know more about this beautiful province of Greenland than what one can see in the nice map made by Niccolò and Antonio Zeni , Venetian gentlemen. Greenland means full of green, so called for its nice pastures that are always green and very rich in livestock. The inhabitants are very tall and very good at fishing from holes they create in the frozen sea." Photo: Rabatti&Domingie
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- Title: Greenland
- Creator Lifespan: 1536 - 1586
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Alatri
- Creator Birth Place: Perugia
- Date Created: around 1565
- cartographer: Egnazio Danti
- Theme: map
- Physical Dimensions: w94 x h113 cm (Complete)
- Original title: Groenlandia
- 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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