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Nanban ships arriving for trade in Japan. 16th-century painting. By the end of the Muromachi period, the first Europeans had arrived. The Portuguese landed in Tanegashima south of Kyūshū in 1543 and within two years were making regular port calls, initiating the century-long Nanban trade period.
Japan sea map. The earliest known term used for maps in Japan is believed to be kata (形, roughly "form"), which was probably in use until roughly the 8th century.During the Nara period, the term zu (図) came into use, but the term most widely used and associated with maps in pre-modern Japan is ezu (絵図, roughly "picture diagram").
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Pages in category "16th-century maps and globes" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Painting depicting a battle during the Ōnin War 19th century ukiyo-e by Utagawa Yoshitora, depicting a battle of the war. The beginning of the Sengoku Period is considered to be the Kyōtoku incident, Ōnin War, or Meiō incident. [2] [11] The Kyōtoku Incident was a major war in the Kanto region that lasted from 1454 to 1482.
Europa regina, Latin for "Queen Europe", is the map-like depiction of the European continent as a queen. [1] [2] Made popular in the 16th century, the map shows Europe as a young and graceful woman wearing imperial regalia. The Iberian Peninsula (Hispania) is the head, wearing a hoop crown.
Prints of the family's works are still sold today. Original maps are rare collector items. Blaeu's 1630 map of Europe Blaeu's 1614 map of the Americas. Blaeu's maps were featured in the works of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer of Delft (1632–1675), who holds a position of great honor among map historians. Several of his paintings ...
16th-century painting stubs (612 P) Pages in category "16th-century paintings" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. ... Wing of a European ...
The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age . [ 1 ]