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 1492

Jorge de Aguiar

Pero 

Fernandes 1529

Pero Fernandes

Pedro 

Reinel 1504

Pedro Reinel

Lopo Homen 1519

Lopo Homen

anonymous 1520

Anonymous

Diogo 

Viegas 1524

Diego Viegas

Diogo 

Ribeiro 1529

Diogo Ribeiro


 

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