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Bust of Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was born and educated in Florence, but soon moved to Seville, where he began a career in trade and finance. In the wake of Portuguese and Spanish navigators, he sailed to the New World, exploring the South American coast. An expert cartographer, he was the first to realize that the [...]
Creator
- Giovan Battista Foggini
- Giovanni Battista Foggini
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Portraits
Medium
- marble
- Marble
Creator
- Giovan Battista Foggini
- Giovanni Battista Foggini
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Portraits
Medium
- marble
- Marble
Providing institution
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- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- 17th cent.
- 16XX
- 1700
- 1601
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:017721
Language
- eng
- ita
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/AmerigoVespucci.html
Year
- 1601
- 1700
Providing country
- Italy