DUCHETTI CLAUDIO/ORTELIUS ABRAHAM
Senensis ditionis, accurata descrip.
Date: Anversa,1574
Siena
Cod 3030
Subject: Siena
400,00 €
Copperplate engraving, hand-painted, 326x236 mm, French text on verso, excellent example perfectly preserved. Map deriving from the model used by Duchetti, who in 1582 had published the first description of the Sienese territory using original sources prior to 1555, the year in which Siena passed to Florence. Taken from "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" the first modern atlas, including maps of all areas of the world; Ortels' brilliant intuition, later Latinized, was precisely this: before then, cartographic production had been irregular, local in level of production and the few atlases, the so-called "Lafrerian Atlases" were made up on request by collecting maps of certain areas, ignoring the others. Ortelius brought together the heterogeneous cartographic production of the period in a single corpus, forming the basis for an enormously successful publishing venture, published from 1570 to 1612. Van den Broecke, Ortelius atlas maps, 137
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