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Pax Romana Art
The World of Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy · c. AD 150
1.843 kr2.636 kr
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- Printed in the USA. Made to order and shipped in the USA.
- Free US shipping. Tracking included on every order.
- Shatterproof plexiglass. Framed prints sit in a pine frame, FSC-certified, and arrive ready to hang.
- Magnetic wooden hanger. Posters come with a pine hanger; the magnets hold the print.
- Arrives perfect — guaranteed. Damaged or defective? Free reprint or refund.
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Framed print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
Hanging print
- 12-color fine art printing with fade-resistant pigment inks
- Smooth matte fine art paper, 200 gsm
- Pine wood frame, FSC-certified paper and wood
- Shatterproof plexiglass
- Arrives framed and ready to hang, hanging kit included
- Sizes: 16x12″ · 24x18″ · 32x24″ · 40x30″
- Orientation: Horizontal
- Medium: Fine art paper
- Style: Map
- Era: Timeless
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The World of PtolemyFramed print · Black · 32x24″
1.843 kr
2.636 krSave 793 kr
Claudius Ptolemy · c. AD 150
The Known World, Measured
Claudius Ptolemy worked in Alexandria in the second century AD, under Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. Besides his famous works on astronomy, he wrote the Geography, a guide to drawing the world. It lists about 8,000 places with their latitudes and longitudes and explains how to project a round earth onto a flat sheet.
Ptolemy's world runs from the Fortunate Isles, the Canaries, in the west to China in the east. Some of his errors became famous. He made Taprobane, Sri Lanka, many times too large, and joined Africa to east Asia with an unknown southern land, turning the Indian Ocean into a closed basin. He also stretched Asia too far east, a mistake often said to have encouraged Columbus. The Geography was rediscovered by Byzantine scholars around 1300, translated into Latin in Florence early in the 1400s, and printed with maps from 1477.
The piece
The design follows those Renaissance maps: a fan-shaped grid outlined in gold, lands in olive and ochre with small brown mountains, and seas in deep lapis blue. Around the edge, the winds of classical tradition blow in from the clouds. The eye starts at the familiar Mediterranean in the upper left and travels east to the edge of what anyone in Rome knew.
Materia · The materials
Fine art paper, framed or hung.
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Fine art paper
Framed prints: 200 gsm smooth matte paper, printed in 12 colors with fade-resistant pigment inks.
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Shatterproof plexiglass
Protects the print in transit and on the wall.
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Magnetic wooden hanger
Posters: 250 gsm museum-quality matte paper between pine hangers in black or dark wood. The magnets hold the print, so you can swap it any time.
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