BICHAT. Il vero ritartto della Fortezza di Bichat asituata in mezzo del Fiume Una in Crovatia
| Reference: | S39347 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI |
| Year: | 1592 |
| Zone: | Biha? |
| Measures: | 445 x 305 mm |
€1,800.00
| Reference: | S39347 |
| Author | Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI |
| Year: | 1592 |
| Zone: | Biha? |
| Measures: | 445 x 305 mm |
€1,800.00
Description
A medium-high oblique view of the siege of the Imperial fortress of Bihać by the Turks, commanded by Telli Hasan Pasha (Hasan Predojević; ca 1530-22 June 1593), resulting in a Turkish victory. Ottoman-Habsburg Wars: The Long War (1591/3-1606). Oriented with north-east to top. Orientation is indicated by a boldly engraved arrow for north, and the letters O[riens], P[onente], and L[evante] which are written to the edges of the sheet.
In response to the refusal by Rudolf II to pay the annual tribute to the Sultan, the Turks, commanded by Hasan Pasha, responded by taking the last imperial fortress of Bihać in June 1592. It became the westernmost Turkish acquisition, prompting the recently elected Pope Clement VIII to propose the formation of a league against the Turks. It was reported that the Turks killed 5,000 Christians and abducted 800 children when they took the city.
Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI (1525-1601)
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Engraver,printer and print publisher,from Villa Lagarina near Trento.Active in Venice and from 1559 in Rome.1577 he had a bottega in Parione which he let out to a cartolaio,Girolamo Agnelli. His own house was in the vicolo di Palazzo Savelli, with a workshop next to it. He was the brother-in-law of Lorenzo Vaccari.
Made plates for Antonio Salamanca, Lafrery and Faleti.By 1560 he seems to have been publishing his own plates. He entered into partnerships for publishing: in 1567 with Perino Zecchini de Guarlottis and in 1576 with Lorenzo Vaccari .In 1577 he was employng a printer: Francesco Cornuti .He acquired old plates that he recut. He published plates by his contemporaries,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Francesco Salviati,Daniele da Volterra, Raphael, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Livio Agresti and Baccio Bandinelli.He also made copies of earlier prints.His subject matter included the devotional topographical,antiquarian,didactic and ‘popular’.
He published a number of important series: the Pontificum Romanorum Effigies of 1580 and the Romanorum Imperatorum Effigies of 1583; the Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophea of 1584; the Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, the first book of which was first published before 1561/2.
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Giovanni Battista de’ CAVALIERI (1525-1601)
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Engraver,printer and print publisher,from Villa Lagarina near Trento.Active in Venice and from 1559 in Rome.1577 he had a bottega in Parione which he let out to a cartolaio,Girolamo Agnelli. His own house was in the vicolo di Palazzo Savelli, with a workshop next to it. He was the brother-in-law of Lorenzo Vaccari.
Made plates for Antonio Salamanca, Lafrery and Faleti.By 1560 he seems to have been publishing his own plates. He entered into partnerships for publishing: in 1567 with Perino Zecchini de Guarlottis and in 1576 with Lorenzo Vaccari .In 1577 he was employng a printer: Francesco Cornuti .He acquired old plates that he recut. He published plates by his contemporaries,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Cort.He himself engraved after works of many artists,including Francesco Salviati,Daniele da Volterra, Raphael, Michelangelo, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Livio Agresti and Baccio Bandinelli.He also made copies of earlier prints.His subject matter included the devotional topographical,antiquarian,didactic and ‘popular’.
He published a number of important series: the Pontificum Romanorum Effigies of 1580 and the Romanorum Imperatorum Effigies of 1583; the Ecclesiae Anglicanae Trophea of 1584; the Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis Romae, the first book of which was first published before 1561/2.
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