Heinrich Bunting - Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis - c.1581
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Heinrich Bunting - Europa Prima Pars Terrae Forma Virginis - c.1581
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Vintage Map
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Digital Art - Printed Map
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A striking and unusual late 16th Century cartographic curiosity - German author Heinrich Bünting's remarkable map of Europe depicted in the form of a Renaissance Queen, possibly a personification of the extensive dominions of the Habsburg dynasty of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V. Bunting draws from an earlier 1537 prototype by cartographer Johannes Putsch. The Queen's right arm is the Italian peninsula, with Sicily as her orb; her left arm is the Jutland peninsula, her right hand holding a sceptre which points westwards across the North Sea. Her crowned head is the Iberian Peninsula. The map first appeared in Bünting's "Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae" published in MagdeBurg, Germany in 1581.
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