The Fra Mauro Map
Fra Mauro, Camaldolese monk, c. 1450
$245
Print check at 20 x 20 in: 316 dpi, excellent. Fills the print edge to edge.
Shipping to a US address: $25.90 for this piece, from the print room in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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From his monastery on a Venetian lagoon, Fra Mauro made the last great medieval map and the first modern one. He interviewed every sailor and merchant who passed through the world's busiest port, filling his enormous gold-ringed disc with some three thousand notes — and daring to show, decades before anyone rounded it, that Africa could be sailed around. A circular, south-up world poised exactly on the hinge between the age of faith and the age of discovery. Geography learning to listen to travelers instead of scripture.
- Maker
- Fra Mauro, Camaldolese monk
- Date
- c. 1450
- Medium of the original
- Plate
- Original held by
- Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
- Credit
- Biblioteca Marciana, Venice
- Rights
- Public domain, verified
- Catalogue number
- PA-00321
| Picture | 20 x 20 in |
|---|---|
| Outside size | 21.6 x 21.6 in |
| Depth | 0.9 in (22 mm) |
| Weight | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]] |
| Hanging | [[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]] |
| Material | Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing |
| Made in | Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi |
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | dpi | Grade | How it fits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 x 16 in | 395 | Excellent | Edge to edge |
| 20 x 20 in | 316 | Excellent | Edge to edge |
| 30 x 30 in | 210 | Excellent | Edge to edge |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 6,320 x 6,322 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 100, lights 203 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0.5% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 23.9
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