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.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Map Room canonical | 1 |
Statements (49)
| 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 ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.