La Galleria delle Carte geografiche in Vaticano/The Gallery of Maps in the Vatican. - book reviews
Art Bulletin, The, March, 1997 by Nicola Courtright
8. In Herrmann Egger, Codex Escuraliensis: Ein Skizzenbuch aus der Werkstatt Domenico Ghirlandaios, Vienna, 1905-6, I, pl. III.
9. Nicole Dacos, La decouverte de la Domus Aurea et la formation des grotesques a la Renaissance, Studies of the Warburg Institute, XXXI, London/Leiden, 1969; and Bernice Davidson, Raphael's Bible: A Study of the Vatican Logge, College Art Association Monographs on the Fine Arts, XXXIX, University Park, Pa./London, 1985. Pius IV's and Gregory XIII's expansions of the Logge anticipated these allusions to a Christian imperial residence based on the Domus Aurea.
10. The fact that they are physically the reverse of their true geographical location (Genoa and Venice on the south entrance wall, Malta and Corfu on the north) indicates that within the gallery the visitor is meant to travel from the north of the peninsula to the south.
11. These details were almost certainly painted primarily by Matthijs Bril, who was active in the adjacent Tower of the Winds shortly afterward, rather than by his neophyte brother Paul, as the authors in Gambi and Pinelli assert.
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