MORE COMPASS ROSES FROM PORTUGUESE NAUTICAL CHARTS

Every nautical chart maker had his own characteristic compass rose using different color oppositions. Here are a few early sixteenth-century examples: red/blue contrasts on the top row, red/black with gold on the bottom. The roses differ in style as well. Some are highly ornate (a style called Manueline), while others are almost modernist (bottom right).

Jorge de Aguiar

Pero Fernandes

Pedro Reinel

Lopo Homen

Anonymous

Diego Viegas

Diogo Ribeiro

COMPASS ROSES by Pat Seed are licensed under a Creative Commons Atribuição-Uso Não-Comercial-Vedada a Criação de Obras Derivadas 2.5 Portugal License. Based on a work at www.ruf.rice.edu