The Rosettes Page - March 2024

[Hermes777]

I think it is modelled on pilgrimage maps (which overlap with mappa mundi) and concerns the transfer of the pilgrimage from the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem onto a local north Italian landscape at the close of the Middle Ages. It specifically prefigures the 'Nine Mountains' devotion formalized by the Church in the 1490s but with pious folk origins, a novena set up to substitute for the ardour of the journey to the Holy Land. The map itself superimposes an (imagined or stylized) topography of Jerusalem with the region in Italy that has the Rosengarten mountains as its centre. 

So, in terms of the vote, I'm for both (symbolic) Jerusalem AND a real place.