maps

July 1, 2017
Italian cartographer and architect Giovanni Battista Nolli died on 1 July 1756 in Rome.

April 23, 2016
The Gallery of Maps , commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in the late sixteenth century for the Vatican Palace, once again shows off the topography of Italy in all its brilliant color.

September 17, 2014
Villa I Tatti On this day in 1440 the Florentine humanist Francesco Berlinghieri was born.

August 5, 2013
Antonio Tempesta’s View of Rome: Portraying the Baroque Splendor of the Eternal City