Framed Regional Maps Art
Besides city maps, regional maps are fascinating because you can see the smallest slice of a particular city, at a particular period of time. You can see the regional politics, food, and cultures which once inhabited a region. We will look at framed regional maps.
The framed regional map, “Map of Italy” by John Douglas, is an interesting historical artifact because it shows many regions, as well as food and wine. Italy is very famous for its food, and just as famous for its wine as France. The pictures of grapes have family names on them, indicating that there must have been many winemaking families at the time of the map's creation.
“Carta Marina, Map of Scandinavia,” is a fun framed local map because it is very colourful, showing mountains, sea creatures, buildings, forests, and food. Its seas look very perilous because it's just covered in sea monsters! Scandinavia is a large series of nations with many peoples and landforms. It is great to see how people of the past rendered it.
GI Artlab brings us another historical map with “Map of Chicago”. This one's time period is unknown, though by the city's size, and appearance of the map, it looks like an edited aerial photograph. The city is highly complex with many roads, all rendered in white. A person could spend hours looking at it!