The french Archives Nationales organize, at their headquarters in Paris, the exhibition Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes: vues et figures de possible espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance. The exhibition focuses on a collection of local and regional maps produced in France between 1300 and 1600 with a marked practical nature: defining boundaries or […]
The next May, 29th at 17:00, the Belgian professor Stefaan Missine will present the book The Da Vinci Globe, published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing the last autumn. The presentation has been organised by the GEHC and it will take place at room 401 in Facultat de Geografia i Història of Barcelona University (Carrer Montalegre 6, Barcelona). The act coincides with the […]
The David Rumsey Map Collection of Stanford University has digitalised recently the worldmap made by Urbano Monte in 1587. In fact, the worldmap is divided in 60 sheets that together make a map more than 3 meters of diameter. It was made from the most recent cartography of that time with a didactical aim. The information is available in diferents […]
Until the next 2nd October it can be visited, in CaixaForum of Barcelona, the exhibition “Ming. L’imperi daurat“. It is about a showing of objects related to Ming dynasty, that governed the Chinese Empire since XIV century to XVII. The objects are from the museo de Nanquín. Between them we must highlight the 坤輿萬國全圖 (Kunyu Wanguo Quantu), the first Chinese World Map of european type. […]
The exhibition is called with the suggestive name title “Quando l’Italia disegnava il mondo. Tesori Cartografici del Rinascimento Italiano” and it can be visited in the Palazzo del Podestà – Museo del ‘500 (Piazza Alta / Città Alta) of Bergamo, between 16 of April and 10 of July. It is organised by l’Associazione “Roberto Almagià”, Fondazione Bergamo nella Storia and Biblioteca […]