This map is my entry for the winter city contest. If you like this map, please take a few seconds to upvote it on Reddit :) I will offer you the link here:
This map is in 4K.
The following information is there for anyone that wants to indulge in a bit of history, and for those who wish to know a little bit about my experience creating this piece.
SITUATION DESCRIPTION
The Wars of Religion were particularly hard on Rouen. In the 1550s the population was around 75000 and by this year it had already dropped down to 55000, recording no less than 20000 casualties. Henry of Navarre, later crowned Henry the Forth of France, laid siege to each major city in Normandy to try and tilt the power struggle between Protestants and Catholics in Protestant favor. During this six month long siege, Queen Elizabeth sent troupes to support his cause, as she had already managed to convert England to Protestantism, but Henry's campaign was far less successful. Henry was forced to convert to Catholic before being crowned King of France in 1594. Despite this, the Edict of Nantes was created and signed several years later, allowing Protestants the same rights as Catholics.
FIRST TIMES FOR THIS MAP:
This is my first attempt at a historical period map.
This is my first time making a winter setting on Inkarnate.
MY EXPERIENCE
I wanted to make the cathedral as authentic looking as possible, so I took the Gothic horror cathedral, turned it a greenish color, snowed it over with clump stamps and built in a wooden spire. As not much of the walls you see here remain in the modern day, I had to do additional research around their placement, and thankfully had some good resources at arms reach. I followed the crudely hand drawn map of a fellow named André Robinne, who made his map from one he found made in 1709.
He otherwise wrote a beautiful work about the streets of Rouen which his map was meant to compliment. This was thankfully how I was able to locate most of the churches and monasteries, and very often one of the nearby streets were given the name of the church. I included the following information for anyone that cares to check it out, but as I was adding more detail to the city, I looked up photographs of each location to see how much of them were left, and to try and re-imagine them in 1592. It is mainly a list, but I tried to include some of what I learned.
Number Legend:
Note: The map this fine fellow made was incompletely labeled via his legend, so I had to change the numbers according to my own map, which virtually makes no difference to you.
1 - La Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Rouen
2 - Église Saint-Ouen
3 - Église Saint Maclou
4 - Église Saint Godard
5 - Église Saint Patrice
6 - Temple Saint Eloi
7 - Église Saint Nicaise
8 - Église Saint Vivien
9 - Église Saint Hilaire
10 - Église Saint Croix des Pelletiers
11 - Tour Saint André
12 - Tour Saint Candes
13 - Église Saint Laurent: Now a museum of wrought iron
14 - Église Saint Pierre du Chastel
15 - Église Saint Vincent
16 - Église Saint Jean de Renelle
17 - Notre-Dame de la Ronde
18 - Église Saint Herblands
19 - Église Saint Nicholas: This church was not destroyed so to speak, but when the attempt to dismantle it and move it elsewhere failed due to lack of funds, all that was preserved were a few paintings and stained glass windows.
20 - Basilique de Saint Denis: This church still stands today.
21 - Saint Étienne des Tonnelier
22 - Église Saint Martin du Bout du Pont
23 - Chapelle Saint Marc
24 - La Croix Saint Ouen
Letter Legend: Most of these were destroyed in the 1944 bombardment of the Nazis, but some are still intact.
A. Sèminaire St. Patrice
B. Les Jacobins
C. Prieurés de St. Lô: All that is left of this place today is its doorway
D. Les Carmes
E. Abbaye de St. Armand
F. Abbaye de St. Ouen
G. Les Jesuites
H. Sèminaire de Joyeuse
I. Les Filles de St. Louis
J. Les Carmélites
K. Les Mathurins
L. Les Minimes
M. Les Filles de St. Joseph
N. Les Capucins: This place was turned into a library
O. Les Franciscaines
P. La Visitation: This place is now a museum called le Musée des Antiquités
Q. Les Clarisses
R. Les Pènitents: Also a museum now called le Musée des Patrimoines
S. Chapelle de L'Annonciade des Pènitents Blanc: still exists today
T. Les Celestins
U. Les Augustins: All that is left of this monastery today is the original doorway, so it now serves as an entrance to a park with a fountain