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Separately issue version of Federico De Agostini stunning map of Italy, first published in 1946 by Italgeo. Published in Milan as ad for Motta, 1960. The illustrator of the pictorial map is Vsevolod Petrovic Nicouline: it shows vignettes of structures, nature, activities, products, crops and many towns and cities labeled. Embellished by elegant calligraphy, compass rose and a Neptune in the sea.
Vsevolod Petrovic Nicouline (1890-1962) was a renowned Russian painter, printmaker, ceramicist, designer and illustrator born in the Ukraine in 1890. For a time he was with the Imperial Academy of Petersburg. His teaching career there was interrupted by the Bolshevik revolution. He was forced to flee and, after a daring journey, arrived in Constantinople accompanied by the Countess Bossalinie Aida who later became his wife. They survived in this city with menial jobs, and were finally able to join relatives in Genoa in 1920 where he held his first exhibition. In 1922 he moved to Nervi, opening a studio at the first Polish residence, meeting other Russian and Polish exiles. His years were rich in relationships, artists, and writers for whom he designed several books and arranged illustrations, commissions of portraits and more. In 1941 he was inaugurated into the Teatro Carlo Felice and designed sets for La Scala and the Metropolitan New York. He was an important illustrator of more than 100 children’s books.
- Author: Federico De Agostini / Vsevolod P. Nicouline
- Dimension: 80 x 64 cm.
- Place of publication: Milan
- Year: 1960
A nice old color example of Blaeu’s regional map of Italy. From “Grooten Atlas” dutch edition of the Atlas Major published in Amsterdam in 1635. The famous Blaeu’s firm was founded in 1596 by Willem Janzoon Blaeu (1571-1638) then continued by his two sons Cornelius (1616-1648) and Johannis (1596-1673). Their greatest cartographic achievement was the publication of the magnificent Atlas Major with 600 maps all finely engraved and embellished by elaborate cartouches, heraldic detail and especially
- Author: BLAEU Johannis
- Year: 1635
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- Place of publication: Amsterdam
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Graziosa riduzione della carta dell’Italia del Seutter che nonostante le dimensioni riesce ad essere molto dettagliata e precisa. Arricchita da grande cartiglio allegorico con il titolo e un secondo, in alto a destra, con tre scale grafiche per le distanze. Tratta dall’opera Atlas Minor Praecipua Orbis Terrarum di Tobias Lotter edito ad Augsburg nel 1744.
- Author: SEUTTER Georg Matthaus
- Year: 1744
- Dimension: 200 x 255 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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Maestosa, bellissima carta murale in nove fogli che una volta uniti compongono una grande mappa dell’Italia di circa 240 x 170 centimetri pubblicata a Bologna dalla litografia di Giulio Wenk nel 1871 in occasione della proclamazione di Roma capitale. La mappa in elevatissimo dettaglio è arricchita da pannelli descrittivi con la storia d’Italia dalle origini all’unità; in alto gli stemmi araldici di Fiesole, Malta, Capua, Monza, Catania, Pisa, Cremona,Bologna,Amalfi, Roma, Firenze, Torino, Milano,Palermo, Brescia, Sardegna, Susa, Aosta, Aquileia, Trieste con al centro lo stemma reale. Ai lati medaglioni con i ritratti di personaggi illustri quali Dante, Manzoni, Garibaldi, Galileo Rossini, Cavour ecc… Il margine inferiore è invece arricchito dalle illustrazioni con le vedute di Paestum, Palermo, Roma, foro Romano, Taormina e l’Etna, Firenze e delle rovine di Girgenti. La carta è completata da tabelle con l’indicazione dei varchi delle Alpi, una grande rosa dei venti, un esaustivo quadro cronologico con la storia di Roma, i principali re d’Italia con la durata dei loro governi. Non mancano le descrizioni dei segni convenzionali. Splendida e di grandissimo impatto visivo.
- Author: Giovanni Mongé
- Place of publication: Bologna
- Year: 1871
- Dimension: 240 x 175 cm
