Parise
| Reference: | s22224 |
| Author | Paolo FORLANI |
| Year: | 1567 |
| Zone: | Paris |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 260 x 190 mm |
€750.00
| Reference: | s22224 |
| Author | Paolo FORLANI |
| Year: | 1567 |
| Zone: | Paris |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 260 x 190 mm |
€750.00
Description
- The very rare early edition by Forlani -
“In alto al centro, in un cartiglio a forma di nastro posto sotto il bordo superiore, è impresso il titolo: PARIGI. In alto a destra è raffigurato lo stemma della città, mentre a sinistra quello dei Valois, sovrani di Francia. Nel margine inferiore, disposta su cinque colonne, troviamo una legenda numerica di 43 rimandi a luoghi e monumenti notabili. Segue, nell’angolo inferiore destro, una breve descrizione alla tavola: Il Vero disegno et ritrato della Citta di Parigi sedia regale della francia, Postovi li n.ri disoto incontrati con li nomi de luoghi piu importanti per maggiore inteligentia de studiosi. In Venetia L’Anno M.D.LXVII.
Pianta prospettica anonima e priva di dati editoriali, attribuita a Paolo Forlani. L’opera è inserita in tutti e cinque gli esemplari della raccolta Il primo libro delle citta et fortezze del mondo, che contiene tavole di Forlani e Domenico Zenoi. Si trova altresì inserita in raccolte fattizie cinquecentesche di grande formato. La carta è ristampata da Bolognino Zaltieri, inserita nelle due diverse edizioni dell’opera De’ disegni delle più illustri citta, et fortezze del mondo di Giulio Ballino, entrambe pubblicate a Venezia nel 1569. Si tratta di una derivazione della pianta di Guillaume Gueroult (1551), contenuta nel Second tome des chroniques & gestes admirables des Emereurs pubblicato a Lione nel 1552 da Balthazar Arnoullet. La pianta è abbastanza fedele al modello sia nella topografia che nella disposizione tipografica; sono identici gli elementi decorativi degli angoli superiori, ad eccezione dell’assenza del Louvre. Non si conoscono varianti di lastra, ma le tirature dello Zaltieri presentano un testo descrittivo al verso” (cfr. Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, p. 1058).
Paolo Forlani, a native of Verona, opened his own chalcographic workshop in Venice, Al segno del pozzo, in 1560, as reflected in some of his works. From 1566 he was active in Merzaria al segno della colonna and from 1569 in Merzaria al segno della nave. Forlani had business relationships with the major publishers of cartographic material of the time, among them Antonio Lafreri, the Bertelli family, and others. In addition to being a talented engraver, he was also quick to execute, a quality that enabled him to work for different publishers at the same time, and to execute a large amount of work. Woodward attributes about one hundred works to Forlani, most of which, however, are unsigned. Between 1560 and 1567, Forlani collaborated with Ferrando Bertelli, for whom he engraved about ten copperplates, with Camocio, Bolognino Zaltieri, and with Claudio Duchetti, for whom he engraved some maps. For his professional activity, however, the collaboration with Giacomo Gastaldi, for whom he engraved thirteen maps, was very important and valuable. In 1567 Forlani published and traded his work Il primo libro delle città et fortezze principali del mondo, whose branches later passed to Bolognino Zaltieri. It is likely that Forlani died during the plague that spread through Venice from 1575.
Beautiful proof, printed on contemporary laid paper, in very good condition.
Bibliografia
S. Bifolco, F. Ronca, Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo, tav. 430; S. Bifolco, Città e Fortezze Principali del Mondo. Le prime raccolte italiane di cartografia urbana e gli isolari del XVI secolo, in “Cartografia e topografia italiana del XVI secolo”, pp. 137-152; Albert Ganado, The Forlani-Zenoi town books of 1567. A description and analysis, in “Florilegium Cartographicum. Beiträge zur Kartographiegeschichte und Vedutenkunde des 16. Bis 18. Jahrhunderts”, a cura di Peter H. Köhl e Peter H. Meurer, Lipsia, 1993, pp. 21-34; Béla Szalai, (adattamento e traduzione inglese Ivan Matković), The Representation of the Hungarian Towns in Domenico Zenoi’s and Paolo Forlani’s Cartographic Work, in “Kartografija i geoinformacije”, Vol.11 (Budapest, No.18 December 2012), pp. 4-37; Vladimiro Valerio, Piante e vedute di Napoli dal 1486 al 1599. L’origine della iconografia urbana europea, Napoli, 1998; p. 40, n. 32 e p. 47, n. 16; David Woodward, Paolo Forlani: Compiler, Engraver, Printer, or Publisher? in Imago Mundi, Vol. 44 (Londra, 1992), pp. 45-64; Boutier (2007): pp. 90-91, n. 9.
Paolo FORLANI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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Paolo Forlani, a native of Verona, opened his own chalcographic workshop in Venice, Al segno del pozzo, in 1560, as reflected in some of his works. From 1566 he was active in Merzaria al segno della colonna and from 1569 in Merzaria al segno della nave. Forlani had business relationships with the major publishers of cartographic material of the time, among them Antonio Lafreri, the Bertelli family, and others. In addition to being a talented engraver, he was also quick to execute, a quality that enabled him to work for different publishers at the same time, and to execute a large amount of work. Woodward attributes about one hundred works to Forlani, most of which, however, are unsigned. Between 1560 and 1567, Forlani collaborated with Ferrando Bertelli, for whom he engraved about ten copperplates, with Camocio, Bolognino Zaltieri, and with Claudio Duchetti, for whom he engraved some maps. For his professional activity, however, the collaboration with Giacomo Gastaldi, for whom he engraved thirteen maps, was very important and valuable. In 1567 Forlani published and traded his work Il primo libro delle città et fortezze principali del mondo, whose branches later passed to Bolognino Zaltieri. It is likely that Forlani died during the plague that spread through Venice from 1575.
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Paolo FORLANI (Attivo a Venezia seconda metà del XVI secolo)
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Paolo Forlani, a native of Verona, opened his own chalcographic workshop in Venice, Al segno del pozzo, in 1560, as reflected in some of his works. From 1566 he was active in Merzaria al segno della colonna and from 1569 in Merzaria al segno della nave. Forlani had business relationships with the major publishers of cartographic material of the time, among them Antonio Lafreri, the Bertelli family, and others. In addition to being a talented engraver, he was also quick to execute, a quality that enabled him to work for different publishers at the same time, and to execute a large amount of work. Woodward attributes about one hundred works to Forlani, most of which, however, are unsigned. Between 1560 and 1567, Forlani collaborated with Ferrando Bertelli, for whom he engraved about ten copperplates, with Camocio, Bolognino Zaltieri, and with Claudio Duchetti, for whom he engraved some maps. For his professional activity, however, the collaboration with Giacomo Gastaldi, for whom he engraved thirteen maps, was very important and valuable. In 1567 Forlani published and traded his work Il primo libro delle città et fortezze principali del mondo, whose branches later passed to Bolognino Zaltieri. It is likely that Forlani died during the plague that spread through Venice from 1575.
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