From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world. On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map ...

A major performance from Alun Armstrong goes so far as to ennoble "Mappa Mundi," a decent enough but hardly inspired piece that is invigorated no end by its leading man. Nearly two decades younger ...

Featuring numerous works and rarely seen large-scale paintings from Frank Bowling's sweeping 60-year career, this book highlights the artist's magnificent use of sensuous color and rich texture in ...

Around 1450, the Venetian government commissioned a monk named Fra Mauro to make a mappa mundi, a map of the world. His map is a circle nearly 7 feet in diameter, crammed with illustrations and ...

To control the image manually drag mouse while holding left mouse button. Use A & Z to zoom in out. Clustered around the Close are the Cathedral itself, the Mappa Mundi building and the Cathedral ...