Gallery
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Fra Mauro's Africa (south is at the top, with the "Cape of Diab" marking the southern point)
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Part of China
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Spain, Portugal and Northern Africa
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Europe
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The Middle-East
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Depiction of a Chinese junk, an Atlantic ship and a Mediterranean ship in the Fra Mauro map.
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Ships of the world in 1460, according to the Fra Mauro map. Chinese junks are described as very large, three or four-masted ships
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The first mention of Java in a Western map
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William Frazer's 1804 copy. High Resolution Full View.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
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“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)