Vasco da Gama Painting - National Maritime Museum - Greenwich, UK
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Oil painting of Vasco da Gama in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK.
Waymark Code: WMA1AC
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/30/2010
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member MAntunes
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The portrait is in the section of the museum for early explorers. The text of the sign for the painting:

 Portuguese exploration

Vasco da Gama (1469?-1524)
by Antonio Manuel da Fonseca, 1832

In 1497 Vasco da Gama was sent by Portugal to push open the route to the East established by Diaz and secure footholds for trading.  Driven home from Calicu in India by Arab merchants, he returned in 1502, aggressive and merciless, to secure a protected trade route that was to make Portugal wealthy.  This painting is a 19th-century oil copy of an original in Portugal.

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