Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cantino planisphere

Cantino planisphere

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Original – The Cantino planisphere, completed by un unknown Portuguese cartographer in 1502, is one of the most precious cartographic monuments of all times. It depicts the world, as it became known to the European after the great exploration voyages of the end of the fifteenth and beggining of the sixteenth century to the Americas, Africa and India. It is now kept in the Biblioteca Universitaria Estense, Modena, Italy

Reason

A high resolution reproduction of a precious and gorgeous map

Articles in which this image appears

Cantino planisphere, Age of Discovery, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Inter caetera

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Diagrams, drawings, and maps/Maps

Creator

Alvesgaspar (talk)

• Support as nominator --Alvesgaspar (talk) 15:35, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support EV is excellent. --Wingtipvorte^X PTT ∅ 21:22, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support per nom. Brandmeister^talk 21:24, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
• Comment The caption for this nomination tells me more about the image than the image's description page, which basically tells me nothing. Can you add some info to the description page? – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 22:07, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

• Support Thanks! – Kerαunoςcopia^◁_galaxies 09:52, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

• Support High level of detail and very high EV. --ELEKHH^T 23:38, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
• Support Very high educational value. Sophus Bie ^(talk) 09:35, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

Promoted File:Cantino planisphere (1502).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:40, 25 May 2013 (UTC)