{"id":1785135,"date":"2018-03-19T12:56:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785135"},"modified":"2018-03-19T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:56:36","slug":"van-duzer-assesses-urbano-montes-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/van-duzer-assesses-urbano-montes-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Duzer Assesses Urbano Monte&#8217;s Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1651354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1651354\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/urbano-montes-1587-world-map-digitally-assembled\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1651354\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/urbano-montes-1587-world-map-digitally-assembled\/urbano-monte\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1534,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"urbano-monte\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;David Rumsey Map Collection &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1024x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1651354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1200x1202.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte.jpg 1534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1651354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Rumsey Map Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/luna\/servlet\/s\/e020w3\">Urbano Monte&#8217;s 1587 world map<\/a>, a copy of which the Rumsey Collection acquired last year (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/01\/urbano-montes-1587-world-map-digitally-assembled\/\">previous entry<\/a>). Chet Van Duzer presented his findings on the map and the mapmaker at Stanford last month,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/61853-renaissance-mapmaker-copycat.html\"><em>LiveScience<\/em> reports<\/a>. His conclusion? Monte was &#8220;both a mastermind and a copycat&#8221;\u2014and not a very good artist, either. But the map is still very interesting. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/100509989851\/permalink\/10157681811564852\/\">WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More on Urbano Monte&#8217;s 1587 world map, a copy of which the Rumsey Collection acquired last year (see previous entry). Chet Van Duzer presented his findings on the map and the mapmaker at Stanford last&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/03\/van-duzer-assesses-urbano-montes-work\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92,1135,400,1134,1085],"class_list":["post-1785135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1500s","tag-planisphere","tag-rumsey","tag-urbano-monte","tag-van-duzer","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1785557,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/05\/the-urbano-monte-map-in-20-different-projections\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785135,"position":0},"title":"The Urbano Monte Map in 20 Different Projections","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"9 May 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"More on Urbano Monte's 1587 world map, which, you may remember, the Rumsey Collection digitally assembled into a single map from 60 manuscript pages. 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As the David Rumsey Map Collection explains, \"the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Antique Maps&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/urbano-monte-1024x1024.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1438,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/david-rumsey-map-center-at-stanford-opens-april-19\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785135,"position":2},"title":"David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford Opens April 19","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"In 2009 it was announced that map collector David Rumsey, whose eponymous website\u00a0has been a must-visit for any map aficionado, would be donating his collection of 150,000 maps, plus digital copies, to Stanford University. 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