https://earlymoderneurope.hist.sites.carleton.edu/files/original/1f8db77c3b3e3af00410da7fd1ffc654.jpeg fe7f1042b477f9ce2d8d611dcabd6240 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Marco Polo - Portrait | Severin Worm-Petersen Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource [Unknown] Photograph by Severin Worm-Petersen Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Zach Irvin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1477 Description An account of the resource First published in Nuremberg in 1477, this woodcut portrait of Marco Polo describes the famous Venetian merchant as a “Great Traveller” and a discoverer of the “Great Wonders of the World”. Polo’s extensive travels to Asia in the late 13th century demonstrated the true scope of Europe’s emerging merchant capitalist model, marking the beginning of a global economic order and ushering in the “Age of Discovery” that accelerated a new era of globalization. Venice and other coastal cities quickly became bustling cultural centers, facilitating the rapid movement of wealth and intellectual discourse that characterized the changing social and political landscape of early modern Europe. With the distribution of his famous travelogue <em>Book of the Marvels of the World</em>, Polo continued to be a popular figure in Europe nearly two centuries after his death. As humanist thinking continued to dominate scholarly spheres, Marco Polo’s ambitious travels embodied the values of exploration and discovery, and expanded the European imagination to new and uncharted lands.  Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Unknown. Marco Polo - Portrait, 1477. Woodcut, Norsk Teknisk Museum. <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2022608/NTM_NTM_UWP_07987.html?q=marco+polo">https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2022608/NTM_NTM_UWP_07987.html?q=marco+polo</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource CC BY Free Re-use