Map Room

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The Map Room is a historic chamber in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio renowned for its wall-to-wall cartographic paintings and globes that reflect Renaissance geographic knowledge and Medici power.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cartographic gallery
historic room
alsoKnownAs Guarderoba Medicea
Hall of Maps
surface form: Sala delle Carte Geografiche

Hall of Maps
surface form: Stanza delle Carte Geografiche
artStyle Mannerism
associatedWith House of Medici
building Palazzo Vecchio
commissionedBy Cosimo I de' Medici
surface form: Cosimo I de’ Medici
constructionStart mid-16th century
country Italy
culturalContext Grand Duchy of Tuscany
decoratedBy Egnazio Danti
Stefano Bonsignori
depicts continents
principal states and cities of the world
regions
designedBy Battista del Tasso
Giorgio Vasari
hasFeature ceiling with allegorical decoration
celestial globe
cupboard doors painted as maps
large terrestrial globe
painted wooden map panels
wall-to-wall map paintings
hasFunction cartographic display
state wardrobe
symbolic representation of Medici power
hasSubject Medici political iconography
cartography
geography
heritageDesignation part of the historic center of Florence UNESCO World Heritage Site
languageOfInscriptions Italian
Latin
locatedIn Florence
Italy
Palazzo Vecchio
Tuscany
openToPublic yes
partOf Duke’s private apartments in Palazzo Vecchio
civic museum of Palazzo Vecchio
surface form: museum of Palazzo Vecchio
represents Renaissance geographic knowledge
known world in the 16th century
symbolizes Medici dominion
cosmographic order
timePeriod Renaissance
touristAttraction yes
usedAs repository for Medici collections
space for geographic and political display

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Palazzo Vecchio hasPart Map Room