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\u201cMaps depicting Renaissance Tuscany are back on display at the Uffizi Galleries<\/a> in Florence after being hidden from public view for more than 20 years,\u201d the Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>. \u201cThe wall paintings were commissioned in the late 1500s by Ferdinando I de\u2019 Medici after the republic of Florence\u2019s conquering of its rival Siena led to the creation the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and depict the newly unified territory.\u201d It cost \u20ac600,000 to restore the three maps drafted by Stefano Bonsignori and painted by Ludovico Buti; the maps are on display in the Uffizi\u2019s maps terrace, also newly renovated and limited to 20 visitors at a time. [MAPS-L<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMaps depicting Renaissance Tuscany are back on display at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after being hidden from public view for more than 20 years,\u201d the Guardian reports. \u201cThe wall paintings were commissioned in the… 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":[92,454,1545,106],"class_list":["post-1805667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1500s","tag-italy","tag-tuscany","tag-wall-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786994,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/01\/16th-century-hand-drawn-maps-imitate-the-style-of-printed-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1805667,"position":0},"title":"16th-Century Hand-Drawn Maps Imitate the Style of Printed Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"15 January 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"Seven maps from late 16th-century Mexico are the focus of a 2018 study by University of Seville researcher Manuel Morato-Moreno (Cartographica article, press release). 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