#map history

[castelnou]

rio de janeiro rj (brazil)

[theritestuff-blog1]

Watch our conservators and installers take this map from six loose broadsheets to one stunning framed piece for our exhibit Religious Change and Print, 1450-1700. The map illustrates, in incredible detail, the siege of La Rochelle, a battle between French Protestants and Louis XIII's royal forces in 1627--and it's now on view through December 27. [Novacco 4F 112 prct]

[maps-of-my-interest]

Roman Emperors My first post - this is a collage I made of modern day countries (relative to each other in size btw). It is every modern day country a Roman Emperor was born in. This includes every Emperor of the unified Roman Empire after the crowing of Augustus, every Emperor of the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman/Byzantine Empire until the deposition of Constantine by the Ottomans and does not include pretenders, claimants, regents or Consuls of the Roman Republic - only recognised Emperors! Those Emperors who’s birth location is unknown/unspecified or I simply couldn’t find out are in the ‘uncertain’ section!

[uicspecialcollections]

Chicago, the Last Great Capital of Cartography

As America grew in the late 19th century, so did mapmaking—and Chicago was at the heart of it.

[mapaddict-blog-blog]

+++Maps as visions, propaganda & lies+++

"On Sunday 2 September 1660, the Great Fire of London began reducing most of the city to ashes, and among the huge losses were many maps of the city itself. The Morgan Map of 1682 was the first to show the whole of the City of London after the fire. Consisting of sixteen separate sheets, measuring eight feet by five feet, it took six years to complete. Morgan's beautiful map symbolised the hoped-for ideal city."

-- BBC Beauty of Maps -- City Maps http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZtCUpK4S0

Notes: - took 6 years to complete - 1st truely modern map of London -- for 1st the time the entire city was     surveyed, measured & drawn to scale - size: 8' x 5' - 16 sheets - Purpose: > to show London had emerged from the fire, that it was equal to everyone else +    better than most > Convey the impression of order & beauty by

taking out prisons and slums 

include pictures of buildings not finished yet, eg. St. Paul

"A map is a city with its human element extracted;  A map is a monument to human achievement and buildings, but  it is not a monument to human behaviour"

--Hallie Rubenhold (Cultural Historian)

[mapaddict-blog-blog]

Beauty of Maps (BBC) -- Medieval Maps

Starting from the Hereford Mappa Mundi...