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ENCOMPASSING the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries. Washington. 2007.

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ENCOMPASSING the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries. Edited by Jay A. Levenson, with the contribution by Diogo Ramada Curto and Jack Turner. Washington: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2007.

386 pp.: il.; 305 mm.

Catalog of the extraordinary exhibition evocative of the enormous contribution that Portugal made to inter-cultural relations in the world. It describes and brings together more than two hundred paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, maps, old books and other artistic creations from various collections around the world. Two more volumes of essays were published that are not included in this issue.