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Johannes Ruysch was a Benedictine monk who was also an accomplished painter, astronomer, and cartographer. He was born in ca. 1460 in Utrecht. In either the late 1490s or the early 1500s, he sailed on a ship from Bristol along roughly the 53rd parallel toward Newfoundland. It is possible he sailed on the Cabot expedition of 1497-8 but the precise voyage is unverified. Around 1505, he came to serve in the St. Martin monastery in Cologne, where he studied painting and astronomy; he painted the signs of the zodiac on the walls of the monastery. He was then called to Rome to help with the painting of the papal apartments in the early sixteenth century, where he befriended Raphael. It was while he was in Rome that he was commissioned to create his influential world map of 1507. Afterward he went to serve the Portuguese Crown as an astronomer and cosmographer. He died in 1533 at the St. Martin monastery.


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Rome / 1507
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21.5 x 16 inches
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Rome / 1507 - 1508
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21.5 x 16 inches
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94181
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Rome / 1507
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21.5 x 16 inches
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VG
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Rome / 1507
Size:
21.5 x 16 inches
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VG+
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81710
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Rome / 1507
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21.5 x 16 inches
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VG
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34405
Place/Date:
Rome / 1507
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21.5 x 16 inches
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VG
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33286