The Newberry library inward Chicago has a major exhibition on Religious Change together with Print, 1450-1700 opening on September 14th. In back upward of this exhibition they accept position together an online collection of the Newberry's manuscripts, maps together with images from the Reformation. This includes a superb interactive presentation of Giovanni Merlo’s engraved map of Venice from 1676.
The Newberry's interactive version of Merlo's Map includes information virtually the engraving together with around of the Venetian locations depicted inward the map. The colored circles on the map selection out around of Reformation Venice's most of import churches, monasteries together with printing centers. You tin click on these circles to larn to a greater extent than virtually each highlighted place together with stance other illustrations of the place from the Newberry collection.
If you lot lead the 'toggle maps' push clit (from the navigation buttons running downwards the middle of the interactive) you lot tin direct compare Merlo's Map side-by-side amongst other vintage maps of Venice. These other maps include Jacopo de Barbari 1500 map of Venice, Benedetto Bordon's map of 1534 together with Paolo Forlani's Venetia from 1566.
If you lot similar historical vintage maps thus you lot powerfulness likewise similar these interactive maps:
The Mappa Mundi (the largest surviving medieval map of the world)
The Gough or Bodleian Map of Great Britain (the oldest surviving road map of Great Britain)
The Oxford Outremer Map (a thirteenth-century map of State of Israel together with Palestine)
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