# World Map

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BORDONE, Benedetto](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bordone-benedetto-re583233b3df1e4>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Woodcut, 325 x 165 mm

## Commentary

This simple woodcut world map was published in 1528 by Bordone in his Libro di Benedetto Bordone or Isolario \[Book of Islands\] in Venice. It was long considered to be the first use of this type of projection for a printed world map. However, an earlier world map by Francesco Rosselli from c. 1508 also uses this oval projection and may have served as a major source for this relatively coarse example by Bordone.

## Related artworks

- [Scene with Satyr and Sleeping Nymph](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bordone-benedetto-re583233b3df1e4/scene-with-satyr-and-sleeping-nymph-ra5bda6c508cd57>)

## Attribution

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