Patavium Nobilissima Et litteratum studijs Florentissima Italice civitas
| Reference: | S41748 |
| Author | Johannes JANSSONIUS |
| Year: | 1617 ca. |
| Zone: | Padova |
| Measures: | 490 x 390 mm |
€850.00
| Reference: | S41748 |
| Author | Johannes JANSSONIUS |
| Year: | 1617 ca. |
| Zone: | Padova |
| Measures: | 490 x 390 mm |
€850.00
Description
Antique map - Bird's-eye view plan of Padua, by Braun and Hogenberg. With key to 80 locations.
"Seguendo schemi già noti, la veduta rappresenta, vista da ovest, la città entro le mura. Buono è l'effetto d'insieme, ben definite appaiono le principali emergenze civili e religiose, mentre sommaria risulta la definizione dell'assetto edilizio minore. Pur derivando dalla carta pubblicata nel Theatrum urbium italicarum di Pietro Bertelli (Mazzi, 1980, 244), la veduta si connota di una certa volontà di migliora- mento del livello espositivo. La carta comparve inizialmente nel Liber Sextus, pubblicato nel 1617, dell'opera intitolata Civitates orbis terrarum. Questo lavoro, ideato come raccolta complementare al Theatrum orbis terrarum di Abraham Ortelius (Anversa, 1570) e più comunemente noto come Theatrum Urbium Francisci Hogenberg & Georgii Braun ecc. (Marinelli, 1881, 114, n. 562), fu il primo effettivo atlante sistematico di città. Suddiviso in sei volumi, esso usci tra il 1572 (anno in cui ottenne privilegio imperiale) e il 1617. Appunto nel 1572 fu pubblicato il primo tomo scritto in latino e comprendente 59 tavole prive di numerazione; il volume ebbe un notevole e immediato successo, tanto che fu ristampato otto volte (1575, 1577, 1582, 1588, 1593, 1599, 1612, 1623). La sua versione in tedesco, intitolata Beschreibung und Contrafactur der Vornem- bster Städte der Welt, ebbe due edizioni (1574, 1582), mentre quella in francese, con il titolo Le grand théâtre des différentes citès du monde, ne ebbe una (1575). Al primo tomo seguirono il secondo pubblicato nel 1575, il terzo nel 1581 e il quarto nel 1588, ciascuno dei quali con 58 illustrazioni; l'opera continuò nel 1589 con il quinto tomo, che raccolse 69 illustrazioni, e si concluse nel 1617 con il sesto, che ne riuni nuovamente 58. Pubblicata in quest'ultimo tomo, la carta di Padova è posta a pagina 55. I principali curatori dell'opera furono il canonico della cattedral, Colonia, Georgius Braun (Georg Bruin von Braun), e due calcors della stessa città, Franciscus Hogenberg (Franz Hogenberg) e Simon Novellanus (Simon van der Neuvelt). Questi ultimi due per realizza. re le loro incisioni fecero ampio uso di disegni di vari autori, Tra questi è da ricordare particolarmente Georgius Hoefnaglius (Georg o Joris Hoefnagel; Anversa, 1542 - Vienna, 1600) che nel corso dei suoi lunghi viaggi in Europa elaborò una copiosa serie di rappresentazioni urbane Georg Bruin von Braun (Colonia, 1541 ivi, 1622) diresse fin dall'inizio il Civitates orbis terrarum con l'obiettivo di renderlo più celebre della ormai famosa Cosmographia universalis di Sebastiano Münster. Si riservò il compito di scrivere il commento storico- geografico che accompagna le tavole e a lui si deve la scelta di impiegare, per il corredo iconografico, l'incisione in rame al posto della tradizionale xilografia (Koeman, 1969, II, 10-11). L'incisore Franz Hogenberg (Mecheln, 1540 c.a Colonia, 1590 c.a) incise gran parte delle lastre impiegate nella stampa dei primi quattro tomi di questa raccolta, tra cui tutte le 58 del terzo. Simon van der Neuvelt, disegnatore e acquafortista, fu attive a Colonia dal 1560 al 1590" (cfr. S. Ghironi, Padova, n. 19).
Etching, with fine later hand colour, very good condition.
Bibliografia
Ghironi, Padova - Piante e Vedute (1449-1865), n.19; Van der Krogt 4.
Johannes JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)
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Johannes Janssonius, more commonly known to us as Jan Jansson, was born in Arnhem where his father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder). In 1612 he married the daughter of the cartographer and publisher Jodocus Hondius, and then set up in business in Amsterdam as a book publisher. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then onwards he produced a very large number of maps, perhaps not quite rivalling those of the Blaeu family but running a very close second in quantity and quality. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlases to which his name was added. On the death of Henricus he took over the business, expanding the atlas still further, until eventually he published an 11-volume Atlas Major on a scale similar to Blaeu's Atlas Major.
The first full edition of Jansson's English County Maps was published in 1646 but some years earlier he issued a number of British maps in the Mercator/Hondius/Jansson series of atlases (1636-44); the maps were printed from newly engraved plates and are different from the later 1646 issue and are now rarely seen (see Appendix B for further details).
In general appearance Jansson's maps are very similar to those of Blaeu and, in fact, were often copied from them, but they tend to be more flamboyant and, some think, more decorative.
After Jansson's death his heirs published a number of maps in an Atlas Contractus in 1666 and later still many of the plates of his British maps were acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck, who published them again in 1683 as separate maps.
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Johannes JANSSONIUS (1588-1664)
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Johannes Janssonius, more commonly known to us as Jan Jansson, was born in Arnhem where his father was a bookseller and publisher (Jan Janszoon the Elder). In 1612 he married the daughter of the cartographer and publisher Jodocus Hondius, and then set up in business in Amsterdam as a book publisher. In 1616 he published his first maps of France and Italy and from then onwards he produced a very large number of maps, perhaps not quite rivalling those of the Blaeu family but running a very close second in quantity and quality. From about 1630 to 1638 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Henricus Hondius, issuing further editions of the Mercator/Hondius atlases to which his name was added. On the death of Henricus he took over the business, expanding the atlas still further, until eventually he published an 11-volume Atlas Major on a scale similar to Blaeu's Atlas Major.
The first full edition of Jansson's English County Maps was published in 1646 but some years earlier he issued a number of British maps in the Mercator/Hondius/Jansson series of atlases (1636-44); the maps were printed from newly engraved plates and are different from the later 1646 issue and are now rarely seen (see Appendix B for further details).
In general appearance Jansson's maps are very similar to those of Blaeu and, in fact, were often copied from them, but they tend to be more flamboyant and, some think, more decorative.
After Jansson's death his heirs published a number of maps in an Atlas Contractus in 1666 and later still many of the plates of his British maps were acquired by Pieter Schenk and Gerard Valck, who published them again in 1683 as separate maps.
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