Sardinia insula inter Africu[m], et Tyrrenu[m] pelagus sita…
| Reference: | S36741 |
| Author | Giacomo GASTALDI |
| Year: | 1560 ca. |
| Zone: | Sardinia |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 205 x 300 mm |
€12,000.00
| Reference: | S36741 |
| Author | Giacomo GASTALDI |
| Year: | 1560 ca. |
| Zone: | Sardinia |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 205 x 300 mm |
€12,000.00
Description
Etching and engraving, printed on contemporary laid paper without watermark, with original added margins, perfect condition.
THE ONLY KNOWN EXAMPLE of the first state of two, a proof state, not completed (cfr. Bifolco-Ronca, tav. 1065).
Anonymous map, without date and editorial indications, which we attribute to Giacomo Gastaldi and we believe to be the prototype of this type of sixteenth-century map of the island.
The cartographic sources are not known, but certainly for the Piedmontese cartographer this table wanted to be a correction and an improvement of the one realized for the Geography of Ptolemy (1548).
The design of the coastal profile refers to the contemporary nautical charts, even if in this table it has improved considerably, at least for the western part. For other geographical data, orography and hydrography, however, the difference with the map of 1548 is minimal, and even toponymy has only a few additions.
Literature:
Christie’s Pa (2006): n. 266; Dzikowski (1940): n. 49; Sotheby’s (2000): n. 257; Sotheby’s (2005): n. 77; Wieder (1915): p. 29, n. 60; Almagià (1929): p. 22; Bifolco-Ronca (2014): n. 151; Lago (2002): p. 490, fig. 488.
Literature
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Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa (2018), pp. 2104-2105, tav. 1065, I/II.
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Giacomo GASTALDI (1500 circa – 1565 circa)
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Giacomo Gastaldi was born, according to the predicate that accompanies his signature on the card in Spain in 1544, Villafranca Piemonte (today the province of Turin), in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Although counted among the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century, the events of his life are unknown until 1539 when his name appears for the first time in a grant of privilege of printing a "perpetual almanac," now lost. In the early '40s, was to be known in learned circles because he began to work on a series of papers, first published separately and then merged, in the Italian edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice 1548) updated by S. Münster. The volume consisted of 60 cards, 26 of which were the traditional Ptolemaic and 34 new made by Gastaldi. Soon his fame spread as a cartographer in Italy and Europe: cosmographer became the official of the Venetian Republic. The Council of Ten, on behalf of whom had a frescoed hall of the Ducal Palace with the cards in Asia and Africa, was referring to him as: Master James of Piedmont our Cosmographer. Remains unchallenged as its contribution to the Italian maps: a map of Italy printed in 1561, when for the first time the profile of the coastline is made by referring to charts much more precise than those of previous centuries. He had the great merit of use and disclose in cartography the etching technique, which allowed all'incisore to make drawings more accurate and crisp, allowing easier viewing Almost all of them before cartographers had instead used the technique of woodcut, much less precise. He was awarded one hundred and nine maps, which represented virtually the entire world. Considering it was incorrect for a long time a mere disciple of Ramusio, and to both of you must exit from tolemaismo geography, Gastaldi was rediscovered by geography after the Italian unit. At the end of the nineteenth century p.e. Nordenskjöld placed him at the pinnacle of European maps and fifty years after the sixteenth Almagia still its greatest scholar, he rebuilt a good biography.
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Literature
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Bifolco-Ronca, Cartografia e Topografia Italiana del XVI secolo, Catalogo ragionato delle opera a stampa (2018), pp. 2104-2105, tav. 1065, I/II.
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Giacomo GASTALDI (1500 circa – 1565 circa)
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Giacomo Gastaldi was born, according to the predicate that accompanies his signature on the card in Spain in 1544, Villafranca Piemonte (today the province of Turin), in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Although counted among the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century, the events of his life are unknown until 1539 when his name appears for the first time in a grant of privilege of printing a "perpetual almanac," now lost. In the early '40s, was to be known in learned circles because he began to work on a series of papers, first published separately and then merged, in the Italian edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice 1548) updated by S. Münster. The volume consisted of 60 cards, 26 of which were the traditional Ptolemaic and 34 new made by Gastaldi. Soon his fame spread as a cartographer in Italy and Europe: cosmographer became the official of the Venetian Republic. The Council of Ten, on behalf of whom had a frescoed hall of the Ducal Palace with the cards in Asia and Africa, was referring to him as: Master James of Piedmont our Cosmographer. Remains unchallenged as its contribution to the Italian maps: a map of Italy printed in 1561, when for the first time the profile of the coastline is made by referring to charts much more precise than those of previous centuries. He had the great merit of use and disclose in cartography the etching technique, which allowed all'incisore to make drawings more accurate and crisp, allowing easier viewing Almost all of them before cartographers had instead used the technique of woodcut, much less precise. He was awarded one hundred and nine maps, which represented virtually the entire world. Considering it was incorrect for a long time a mere disciple of Ramusio, and to both of you must exit from tolemaismo geography, Gastaldi was rediscovered by geography after the Italian unit. At the end of the nineteenth century p.e. Nordenskjöld placed him at the pinnacle of European maps and fifty years after the sixteenth Almagia still its greatest scholar, he rebuilt a good biography.
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