The 510-year-old map is the first to name America. A world map in the form of a set of gores for a terrestrial globe, from 1507 by cartographer Martin Waldseemueller is displayed at Christie's auction ...
Curators at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona recently spoke to reporters about a massive painting depicting a whaling voyage first displayed in 1848. Called 'The Grand Panorama of a Whaling ...