Summa

In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer.

The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence.

Rockefeller Center is at once a summa of the Art Deco style, and a look ahead to the Internationalist style that dominated after World War II.