1700 Map of Italy

by Guillaume de Lisle

Title

1700 Map of Italy

Artist

Guillaume de Lisle

Medium

Painting - Oil On Canvas

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This wonderful map of Italy was included in Guillaume de L'isle's World Atlas of 1700. It incorporated many modern elements of cartography for the first time in a widely published work. He became the first royal cartographer in 1718 and was an associate of the Academy of Science. His maps were the most accurate available and were updated with the accounts of travelers. He was the first cartographer to not depict California as an island. He died in Paris in 1726.

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