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The invention of compass (Polar stone)
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Anonymous (Gdańsk)
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| Title |
The invention of compass (Polar stone). |
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| Genre |
portrait |
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| Depicted people |
Flavio Gioja |
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| Date | after 1590 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on copper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 21.5 cm (8.4 in); width: 28.8 cm (11.3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
not on view |
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| Accession number |
M.Ob.739 (232960) |
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| Object history |
1968: purchased by National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) from Jan Byszewski |
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| Notes | Alleged inventor, Flavio Gioia di Amalfi, at his desk measuring a compass while reading a book (about 1302 AD). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Janina Michałkowa (1970). Nouvelles acquisitions du Département de la Peinture Européenne 1963-1969 in: Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie. No. 11, pic. 84, p. 95 Bożena Steinborn, Antoni Ziemba (2000) Malarstwo niemieckie do 1600 roku. Muzeum Narodowe. ISBN 83-71001-41-X, cat. no. 53, p. 228 |
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| Source/Photographer | cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- 17th-century paintings in the National Museum in Warsaw
- Mannerist paintings in the National Museum in Warsaw
- Pomeranian paintings in the National Museum in Warsaw
- Compasses in art
- Inventions in art
- Men in rooms in art
- Males with dogs in art
- 1590s paintings of people
- Armillary spheres in art
- Ideas in art
- Works after Jan van der Straet