Henry The Navigator

HenryTheNavigator

male, deceased (1460)
ceuta, Muslim, Portuguese, From Porto, Map-maker, North Africa…The Seafarer, Knight of the Garter, Prince, navigator, order of the garter
Infante Henrique, Duke of Viseu <small>KG</small> (Porto, March 4, 1394-Sagres, November 13, 1460); pron.), was an "infante" (prince) of the...

Nuno Gonçalves

male
Renaissance painter, painter, Francisco de Holanda, Padrão dos Descobrimentos, paineis de São Vicente de Fora, Portuguese…princehenrythenavigator
Nuno Gonçalves was a 15th century Portuguese artist credited for the painting of the "paineis de São Vicente de Fora" (Saint Vincent Panels). The pa...
Fra Mauro

Fra Mauro

male
astronaut, Codice Borgiano V, portolan chart, Venetian Lagoon, Heraklion, Vatican Library…princehenrythenavigator
Fra Mauro was a 15th century Italian Camaldolese monk who kept his cartography workshop in the monastery of San Michel in Isola Murano, in the...