Flavio Gioia (Flavius Amalfitanus) in his study, using the magnetic compass. Oil painting after Jan van der Straet (Stradanus).

  • Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605.
Reference:
47423i
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Physical description

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 51 x 61.4 cm

Notes

Another painting of the same composition was in the exhibition Uczony i jego pracownia (The scholar and his study), Muzeum Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków (Cracow), 12 May-28 August 2005.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47423i

Reproduction note

After an engraving by Philip Galle after Jan van der Straet (Johannes Stradanus), in the series 'Nova reperta', published in Antwerp

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