Grand Tour of Rome

Sunday June 01st 2008
Filed Under Cartography, Europe 

University of Oregon recently announced the unveiling of “Grand Tour of Rome”, an interactive mapping web site that takes the visitor back to 18th century Rome.  The project is the culmination of a two-year grant from the Getty Foundation:

“Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome” presents an innovative geographic database and Web site that brings to life the work of two 18th century masters of Rome’s urban and architectural treasures: Giambattista Nolli (1701-1756), who published the first accurate map of Rome (La Pianta Grande di Roma, 1748); and his contemporary, Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782), whose comprehensive views of the city and its monuments from 1747-1761, can be precisely located and explored by using the Nolli map as a reference.

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