Bartholomew Columbus
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Bartholomew Columbus was a Genoese explorer and the younger brother of Christopher Columbus.
Bartholomew Columbus
Christopher Columbus
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Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish transatlantic voyages in the name of the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the wid
Bartholomew Columbus
…Bartolomeu Colombo; Spanish: Bartolomé Colón; Italian: Bartolomeo Colombo; c. 1461 – 12 August 1514) was a Genoese explorer and the younger brother of Christopher Columbus. Born in Genoa in 1461, Bartholomew became a mapmaker in Lisbon, the principal centre of cartography of the time, and conceived with his brother the…
Painting said to be a posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus, by Sebastiano del Piombo, 1519
Christopher Columbus House in Genoa, Italy, an 18th-century reconstruction of the house in which Columbus grew up. The original was likely destroyed during the 1684 bombardment of Genoa.
Colombo giovinetto, sculpture of young Columbus by Giulio Monteverde, Genoa
Portrait of Columbus by Aliprando Caprioli