[Dalmazia]

Reference: S39350
Author Martino ROTA
Year: 1570 ca.
Zone: Dalmatia
Printed: Venice
Measures: 440 x 315 mm
€2,900.00

Reference: S39350
Author Martino ROTA
Year: 1570 ca.
Zone: Dalmatia
Printed: Venice
Measures: 440 x 315 mm
€2,900.00

Description

A very rare map of central Dalmatia by Martino Rota, in the seventeenth-century reprint edited by Stefano Mozzi Scolari, known so far only from the example in the Novacco collection.

Untitled map. In the lower right corner we find the signature: Martinus Rotta. Bottom center, in the sea, is drawn the MESURA DELLE MIGLA, a graphic scale without indications, consisting of 3 and 6 units of miles, equal to mm 52. Orientation with an eight-wind rose in the sea, north is at the top. Devoid of graduation in the margins.

Exampelin the third state of three described in Bifolco-Ronca; Doino's signature is abraded, replaced by the imprint Stefano Scolari formis in Venetia.

Etching and engraving, circa 1570, signed in plate lower center-right. Magnificent proof, impressed on coeval laid paper, with margins, in excellent condition.

“Carta prospettica, priva di data, della Dalmazia centrale che descrive la regione di Split (it. Spalato) qui nella forma italianizzata Spalato. Si tratta di un’innovativa ed importante rappresentazione, in alzato prospettico, che ebbe repliche anche nel secolo successivo. Si estende sulla costa dalla città di Trogir fino ad Omi (Almisa) ed è firmata dal sebenicense Martino Rota. Per analogia con le altre opere del Rota, la carta è databile al 1570 circa. Meurer stabilisce come terminus ante quem della lastra il 1568, quando Martino Rota si trasferisce alla corte imperiale viennese, ma poi si corregge, sostenendo che la collaborazione tra l’incisore e gli editori veneti sia da collocare ben oltre questa data. Secondo Mliinarić la carta – che descrive come datata in lastra - sarebbe stata stampata da Camocio tra il 1558 ed il 1568, ma la teoria ci sembra molto debole, in assenza di elementi che possano corroborarla. L’opera, scarsamente diffusa nelle raccolte cinquecentesche, ebbe due tirature successive per mano degli editori Catarin Doino e Stefano Scolari. Il secondo stato della lastra, a firma Doino, è databile al 1620 circa. Viene descritto da Shirley per l’esemplare conservato nella raccolta fattizia della British Library [Maps C.7. e 3.(1)]. Altri esemplari censiti sono quelli alla Newberry Library e alla Bibliothèque Nationale. Una terza stesura della lastra viene stampata da Stefano Scolari verso la metà del XVII secolo. Illustrata nel catalogo della collezione Novacco, viene descritta già da Almagià”. (cfr. S. Bifolco – F. Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo (2018), p. 1370.

Martino Rota (Sibenik 1520 - Venice 1583) was an engraver and publisher from Sibenik, active in Venice, Vienna and Prague. The earliest dated work is from 1558. He probably worked in Venice until 1572. Plates from 1571/2, with subjects related to the victory over the Turks, at Lepanto, appear to have been made in Venice. In Vienna, he made portraits between 1573 and 1576, credited to the court of Maximilian II. He moved to Prague in 1580. In Venice his plates were published by Luca Guarinoni, Luca and Ferrando Bertelli, Giovanni Francesco Camocio, Giovanni Mastini, Benedetto Stefani, Claudio Duchetti, Nicolò Nelli, and Bolognino Zaltieri.

Stefano Mozzi Scolari was a Brescian draughtsman, engraver and publisher, active in Venice from 1644 to 1687. His workshop was one of the best Venetian chalcographers of the 1600s. He practiced the art of printing and trading maps in S. Zulian all’insegna delle Tre Virtù. He made use of the plates of Bertelli, Valegio and Van Aelst. He also edited reprints of such important maps as Gastaldi's Lombardia, and Greuter and Magini's maps of Italy.

Magnificent example belonged to the collection of Fritz Hellwig.

Bibliografia

S. Bifolco – F. Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo (2018): pp. 1370-1371, tav. 625, III/III; Almagià (1929): p. 40, n. 1; Borroni Salvadori (1980): n. 205; Cartografia Rara (1986): n. 39; Meurer (2002): n. 50; Mliinarić (2011): pp. 77-78, tav. 3 &4; Novak (2005): p. 92, fig. 3; Shirley (2004): p. 393, n. 34.

Martino ROTA (Sebenico 1520 - Venezia 1583)

Etcher, engraver and print publisher from Sebenico. Active in Venice, Graz, Vienna and Prague. Earliest dated print 1558.He probably worked in Venice until late 1572. Plates of 1571/2, with subjects related to the victory over the Turks at Lepanto, seem to have been produced in Venice. He was producing portraits in Vienna by 1573.1576 he was described as painter to Maximilian II. He went to Prague c.1580. His work in Venice was published by, among others: L.Guarinoni, Luca and Ferrando Bertelli, Camocio, Giovanni Mastini, Benedetto Stefani, Claudio Duchetti (Duchet), Nelli, Bolognino Zaltieri.

Martino ROTA (Sebenico 1520 - Venezia 1583)

Etcher, engraver and print publisher from Sebenico. Active in Venice, Graz, Vienna and Prague. Earliest dated print 1558.He probably worked in Venice until late 1572. Plates of 1571/2, with subjects related to the victory over the Turks at Lepanto, seem to have been produced in Venice. He was producing portraits in Vienna by 1573.1576 he was described as painter to Maximilian II. He went to Prague c.1580. His work in Venice was published by, among others: L.Guarinoni, Luca and Ferrando Bertelli, Camocio, Giovanni Mastini, Benedetto Stefani, Claudio Duchetti (Duchet), Nelli, Bolognino Zaltieri.