Messana Urbs est Sicilie?
Bird’s-eye view
- Author: BRAUN Georg - HOGENBERG Franz
- Year: 1572
- Dimension: 342 x 482 mm
- Place of publication: Colonia
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Nice depiction of Scylla and Charybdis located on the Strait of Messina off the coast of Sicily and opposite the rock on the Italian mainland. From Merian’s “Topographia Italiae” pubblished in Franckfurt in 1688. Mattheus Merian was a notable Swiss engraver, born in Basle in 1593, who subsequently studied in Zurich and then moved to Frankfurt where he met Theodore de Bry, whose daughter he married in 1617. [cod.463/15]
- Author: MERIAN Mattheus
- Year: 1688
- Dimension: 195 x 270 mm
- Place of publication: Frankfurt
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Superb pictorial bird’s-eye view of Mount Etna drawn by the legendary illustrator Heinrich Caesar Berann and published in 1953 by the Catania Tourist Board. This charming tourist map is illustrated in baroque style with decorative borders and an antique-looking map of Catania in the left side-panel. On the verso are photographs of Etna and its environs, accompanied by information about climbing the volcano. Heinrich Caesar Berann (1915 – 1999) was an Austrian painter and cartographer. He achieved…
- Author: Heinrich Caesar Berann
- Dimension: 43 x 62 cm
- Place of publication: Genoa
- Year: 1953
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- Dimension: 47 x 67 cm
- Place of publication: Palermo
- Year: 1892
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- Author: HOMANN Johann Baptist
- Year: 1720
- Dimension: 580 x 500 mm
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