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Ancient Italy (with the inscription “Commendatur Italia locorum salubritate, coeli temperie, soli ubertate”)
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Modern Italy (with the inscription “Italia artium studiorumque plena semper est habita”).
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Capitalscapes Folding Screens and Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto
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After the series of regional maps, there are two general geographical maps:
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General view of the four major Italian ports of the sixteenth century:
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McKelway, Matthew (2006). "The Azuchi Screens and Images of Castles".
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The panels map the entirety of the Italian peninsula in large-scale
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The decorations on the vaulted ceiling are the work of a group of
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as a partition, one side depicts the regions surrounded by the
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containing a series of painted topographical maps of
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and the other depicts the regions surrounded by the
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as part of other artistic works commissioned by the
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Santa Maria della PietĂ  in Camposanto dei Teutonici
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Gallery of Maps is located in Vatican City
Vatican City
Pope Gregory XIII
Holy See
museivaticani.va
Italian
Belvedere Courtyard
Vatican
Italy
Ignazio Danti
Pope Gregory XIII
Pope
Vatican
frescoes
Apennines
Ligurian
Tyrrhenian Seas
Adriatic Sea
Venice
Ancona
Genoa
Civitavecchia
Mannerist
Cesare Nebbia
Girolamo Muziano
Azuchi Screens
Oda Nobunaga
Coat of arms of Pope Gregory XIII and Pope Urban XIII
Pope Gregory XIII

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