Venetia Urbs Italiae Potentissima Caput er Regionum Urbiumq. Complurium Dominatrix
| Reference: | S39282 |
| Author | Lucas Schnitzer |
| Year: | 1667 ca. |
| Zone: | Venezia |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 350 x 240 mm |
| Reference: | S39282 |
| Author | Lucas Schnitzer |
| Year: | 1667 ca. |
| Zone: | Venezia |
| Printed: | Nurnberg |
| Measures: | 350 x 240 mm |
Description
Perspective view from the south with the islands of San Giorgio Maggiore and Giudecca. Monogrammed LS at lower right, at lower right a cartouche with references A-Z surmounted by Venetian figures and above the lion of San Marco and a representation of Venice in the form of a woman.
Along the upper side: VENETIAE URBS ITALIAE POTEN- TISSIMA CAPUT ET REGIONUM URBIUMQ(UE) COM- PLURIUM DOMINATRIX. Along the lower side 12 verses of praise on Venetia in German and in Gothic characters, arranged in two columns; more to the right, within a frame, 24 references marked letter from A to Z, arranged in two columns. In the lower right corner the monogram of Lucas Schnitzer. Within the top plan the usual allegorical figure of Venice and the lion of St. Mark seen from the side.
Lucas Schnitzer (active 1630-1671) was an etcher and engraver who worked mainly in Nuremberg. His extensive oeuvre, comprising about 260 works. Schnitzer identifies himself in a variety of different ways in his work - sometimes with his full name, at other times with an abbreviated version of it, but most frequently with the intertwined monogram LS. There are more than 50 known topographical views by the artist, first published by Paulus Fürst. A number of these topographical scenes were modelled to some extent on the earlier views of artists like Hogenberg or Merian.
Etching, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, good condition. Rare.
Bibliografia
Cassini, p. 82, n. 44; Moretto, Venetia. Le immagini della Repubblica, n. 89; Schulz, 164.
Lucas Schnitzer (attivo 1630-1671)
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Lucas Schnitzer (active 1630-1671) was an etcher and engraver who worked mainly in Nuremberg. His extensive oeuvre, comprising about 260 works. Schnitzer identifies himself in a variety of different ways in his work - sometimes with his full name, at other times with an abbreviated version of it, but most frequently with the intertwined monogram LS. There are more than 50 known topographical views by the artist, first published by Paulus Fürst. A number of these topographical scenes were modelled to some extent on the earlier views of artists like Hogenberg or Merian. The artists chief interest, however, was the history of his own time: views of the sieges and battles of the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent Turkish Wars in the guise of broadsheets with army communiqs, souvenir pictures of rifle-club festivals or of fireworks, illustrations to poems by the Nuremberg poet laureates, or to New Years poems, family trees, funeral processions and new fire engines in action. In addition to portraits somewhat in the manner of Lucas Kilian, Schnitzer created individual portraits for a series of the German Emperors. Schnitzer also produced etchings and engravings of religious subjects, an extensive New Testament series, a scene showing the construction of Noah's Ark for the Endter Bible of Nuremberg in 1649 and a devotional sheet for the pilgrimage of Walldürn in Oldenwald.
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Lucas Schnitzer (attivo 1630-1671)
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Lucas Schnitzer (active 1630-1671) was an etcher and engraver who worked mainly in Nuremberg. His extensive oeuvre, comprising about 260 works. Schnitzer identifies himself in a variety of different ways in his work - sometimes with his full name, at other times with an abbreviated version of it, but most frequently with the intertwined monogram LS. There are more than 50 known topographical views by the artist, first published by Paulus Fürst. A number of these topographical scenes were modelled to some extent on the earlier views of artists like Hogenberg or Merian. The artists chief interest, however, was the history of his own time: views of the sieges and battles of the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent Turkish Wars in the guise of broadsheets with army communiqs, souvenir pictures of rifle-club festivals or of fireworks, illustrations to poems by the Nuremberg poet laureates, or to New Years poems, family trees, funeral processions and new fire engines in action. In addition to portraits somewhat in the manner of Lucas Kilian, Schnitzer created individual portraits for a series of the German Emperors. Schnitzer also produced etchings and engravings of religious subjects, an extensive New Testament series, a scene showing the construction of Noah's Ark for the Endter Bible of Nuremberg in 1649 and a devotional sheet for the pilgrimage of Walldürn in Oldenwald.
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