Book on Navigation
Unknown artist (work authored and mapped by Piri Reis)
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Details
- Holding institution
- Walters Art Museum
- Palette
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- Image provider
- wikimedia-commons
- License
- Public domain
- Credit
- Walters Art Museum
Art Genome Taxonomy
8 tags
Artistic Disciplines
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Written Word Metadata · 99%
The catalog classifies the object as a manuscript or decorative artwork and titles it Book on Navigation.
Subject Matter
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Nautical Metadata · 97%
The title Book on Navigation directly establishes navigation as the catalog-described subject.
Visual Qualities
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Arabesque/Scroll Visual · 88%
The cover visibly contains scrolling, vegetal-looking ornamental forms within borders and cartouches.
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Highly Ornamented Visual · 98%
Decorative tooling or relief-like ornament covers the central field, borders, side compartments, and repeated plaques.
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Patterns Visual · 98%
The surface is structured by recurring cartouches, medallions, borders, and interlacing motifs.
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Dark Colors Visual · 94%
The cover has a very dark ground contrasted with luminous gold-toned decoration.
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Symmetrical Visual · 80%
The decorative layout is organized around a central panel with repeated border and plaque motifs, producing a broadly ordered and near-symmetrical structure despite the overlapping section at left.
Medium and Techniques
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Manuscript Metadata · 99%
The catalog classification explicitly identifies the work as a manuscript.
Source & rights
Piri Reis. YwFB8WyckgerwA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level
High-resolution sources
- Original image ↗ 3,168 × 4,357 · Wikimedia Commons · Availability not yet probed