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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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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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The Gallery of Maps

Gallery of Maps is located in Vatican City
Vatican City
Pope Gregory XIII
Holy See
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Italian
Belvedere Courtyard
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Italy
Ignazio Danti
Pope Gregory XIII
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Apennines
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Tyrrhenian Seas
Adriatic Sea
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Cesare Nebbia
Girolamo Muziano
Azuchi Screens
Oda Nobunaga
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