Pedro Reinel: Navigator of the Age of Discovery Born in Lisbon around 1485, Pedro Reinel stands as a pivotal figure in the burgeoning world of Portuguese cartography during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. His life coincided with an era of unprecedented maritime exploration – the voyages of Prince Henry the Navigator, Diogo Cão’s expeditions along the African coast, and the ambitious quest to circumnavigate the globe. Reinel wasn't a flamboyant explorer himself, but rather a meticulous craftsman, a skilled mapmaker who quietly shaped European understanding of the world throu…
A chart of Pedro Reinel's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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