View of the town from “Itinerario overo decrittione de’ viaggi principali in Italia” by Francesco Scoto published in Padua by Matteo Cadorin in 1670. [cod.329/15]
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View of the town from “Itinerario overo decrittione de’ viaggi principali in Italia” by Francesco Scoto published in Padua by Matteo Cadorin in 1670. [cod.329/15]
€ 120,00
View of the town from “Itinerario overo decrittione de’ viaggi principali in Italia” by Francesco Scoto published in Padua by Matteo Cadorin in 1670. [cod.329/15]
Merian’s panoramic view of Rome is a reduction of Antonio Tempesta’s monumental map of 1593. Oriented with north to the left, it shows the city at the height of the Italian Renaissance. The projection provides a particularly graphic view of many of the important buildings, churches and monuments with the Tiber River in the foreground. From Merian’s Topographia Italiae published in Franckfurt in 1688.
Beautifull town plan of Rome with a text about the city at right and left. Published in Bodenehr’s Curioses Staats und Kriegs Theatrum. Gabriel Bodenehr (1664 – 1758) was a copper engraver and publisher. In 1716 he bought the copper plates of Johann Stridbeck (1640 – 1716), revised and completed them with his own maps, views and plans, and published them in several works with different titles. [cod.097/15]
Rare copper engraving of Tivoli from “Theatro delle citta’ d’Italia, con nova aggiunta” by Francesco Bertelli published in 1629. [cod.315/15]
A rare copper engraved panorama of Rome taken from the really uncommon “Sachsischer Postillon” a kind of historic-geographic magazine published in Vienna in 1784. At top the portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III and a key to 82 point of interest numbered on the view. The author is George Hisler (signed in the lower right) who drawn Rome in curious German stile easily visible in the shape of the roofs and bell towers. Central fold as issued. In very good condition.