The Fra Mauro Map of the world. The map depicts Asia, Africa and Europe, with South at the top. The Fra Mauro map is a map of the world made around 1450 by the Italian cartographer Fra Mauro, which is “considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography."

2022年3月19日 · The digital edition of Fra Mauro’s world map created by the Museo Galileo in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has been launched on March 19 at the Venetian institution.

2017年4月3日 · Fra Mauro was the Google Earth of the 1450s. Detail from Fra Mauro’s map, a work of unprecedented thoroughness and accuracy. Public Domain. If you had landed in Venice during the mid-15th...

The Fra Mauro world map, or mappa mundi, was a major cartographical work that compiled much of the geographical knowledge of the time. The map covers over five square meters.

2021年5月30日 · The "Fra Mauro Map" is one of the most accurate surviving Medieval maps, and depicts Asia, Africa and Europe with a high level of accuracy. Made by Fra Mauro in Venice, c. 1450. (Museo Correr, Venice) Original image by Piero Falchetta. Uploaded by Arienne King, published on 30 May 2021.

The world map by Fra Mauro (active ca. 1430-ca. 1459/1464) reflects a vision of the world that was coming into focus in one of the most flourishing commercial and cultural centers in Europe: the Republic of Venice.

2023年6月26日 · Fra Mauro subjected every inch of this map to critical and extensive evaluation; in the inscriptions, we see how his mind worked, and how important it was for him to substantiate his decisions.

This world map, considered the greatest memorial of medieval cartography, was produced between 1457 and 1459 by the Italian monk Fra Mauro. It is a circular planisphere drawn on parchment,...

2022年3月21日 · The visionary world map created by 15th century monk Fra Mauro has been digitized and can now be explored in detail online with a fantastic depth and breadth of explanatory material in Italian, English and Chinese.

Originating sometime between 1448 and 1460, Fra Mauro’s remarkably detailed and complex world map was created at the monastery of San Michele on Murano for King Afonso V of Portugal, along with a secondary copy, which was presented to the Venetian Republic.