Old Map of Greece, Albania and Macedonia by Blaeu, 1659: Thessaloniki, Epirus, Pindus Mts, Mt Olympus, Ionian & Aegean Size:A3 (297x420mm) The "City of Denver" map

The "City of Denver" map

chronicling ethnographic studies of the Caucasian region

is a striking example of how simplicity and vivid color can gel harmoniously in the world of fine art

balancing navigational legibility with emblematic flourish

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Old Map of Greece, Albania and Macedonia by Blaeu, 1659: Thessaloniki, Epirus, Pindus Mts, Mt Olympus, Ionian & Aegean Size:A3 (297x420mm) The "City of Denver" mapMacedonia Epirus et Achaia, issued in 1659 by Willem Janszoon Blaeu, surveys the storied northern and western reaches of Greece together with adjoining Albania in a composition as scholarly as it is sumptuous. The eye is drawn first to a baroque cartouche brimming with allegorical figures and scrolling foliage, then out across a landscape animated by ships coursing the Aegean and Ionian waters and oriented by a bold compass rose. Political boundaries