Author: Pietro Vesconte Date: 1318 Country: Italy (Venice) Archive: Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) Call number: Cod. 594 (Cimel. 20) Dimensions: 200 x 190 mm Entry in Medea Database | Entrada Medea Base de Dados The 1318 Vienna atlas of Pietro Vesconte immediately stands out in the corpus of the great Genoese chartmaker for its atypical stylistic features: its waters are colored in translucent yellowish-green, and its delicate ink coastlines ar

Author | Autor anonymous. Attributed to Jorge Reinel and Pedro Reinel Date | Data c. 1519 Country | País Portugal Archive | Arquivo Lost | Perdido Facsimile at Bibliothèque Nationale de France Call number | Número de catálogo CPL GE AA-564 (RES) Dimensions | Dimensões 1280 X 630 mm Medea-Chart Database Entry | Entrada Base de Dados Medea-Chart In 1517 Fernão de Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan) arrived at Seville, with an irresistible proposal to the young King Charles I of Spai

Author | Autor Battista Agnese Date | Data 1514 Country |País Italy Archive | Arquivo Herzog August Bibliothek Call number | Número Catálogo Cod. Guelf. 100 Aug. 2° Dimensions | Dimensões 860 x 550 mm Medea-Chart Database Entry | Entrada na Base de Dados Medea-Chart It is strange that of the life of Battista Agnese, the chart maker whose output dominated the whole sixteenth century, we know so little. His biography is largely restricted to what can be deduced from the inscrip