Bird's-eye view of Venice
By BORDONE, Benedetto di , 1534

Vinegia

Europe Italy
  • 作者: BORDONE, Benedetto di
  • 出版地: Venice
  • 出版商: [Nicolo Zoppino]
  • 发布日期: 1534
  • 物理描述: Woodcut map, with contemporary hand-colour in outline.
  • 方面: 225 by 325mm. (8.75 by 12.75 inches).
  • 库存参考: 3239

笔记

A striking bird’s-eye view of Venice after Barbari, detailing the major canals and landmarks in the city.

From the second Zoppino edition of Benedetto di Bordone’s ‘Isolario’, published in 1534. Bordone’s (1460-1539) “Isolario…”, or book of islands, was the first printed isolario to encompass the entire world, the only printed isolario to precede it was the little book of Bartolomeo dalli Sonetti, 1485, which covered only the Aegean islands. The isolario was a popular genre that had first appeared in manuscript examples by Cristoforo Buondelmonte dating from the early fifteenth-century, Bordone expanded on the usual theme to encompass lands beyond the eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean archipelago and the Levant, to guide travellers to other parts of Europe and the world, stretching as far as the Indian Ocean, the African coastline and the New World.

Bordone’s work combines conventional and maritime cartography: the representation of settlements echo maps, and the coastlines are in the style of nautical charts.

参考书目

  1. Shirley, BL, T.BORD-1a
  2. Shirley, World, 59.
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