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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

Pero 
Fernandes 1529

Pedro 
Reinel 1504

Lopo Homen 1519

anonymous 1520

Diogo 
Viegas 1524

Diogo 
Ribeiro 1529

 

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