LIVONIA ET LITVANIA, 1565 (?)

c. 1565 Egnazio Danti (monk/ astronomer/mapmaker): “LIVONIA ET LITVANIA,” Florence, in a small (116 mm / 4.56 inches / 99 mm / 3.89 inches) oil painting on wood on the second floor of the Palazzo Vecchio Museum, one of 57 wall maps of countries of the world he designed, and managed to paint 30, with the remaining maps painted by S. Bonsignori. A number of his maps were later used by Ortelius.