Il vero ritratto di tutta l'Alamagna
| Reference: | 4805 |
| Author | Giacomo GASTALDI |
| Year: | 1552 |
| Zone: | Germany |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 355 x 260 mm |
| Reference: | 4805 |
| Author | Giacomo GASTALDI |
| Year: | 1552 |
| Zone: | Germany |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 355 x 260 mm |
Description
Etching and engraving, 1552, signed and dated in the plate in the middle on the left.
Magnificent proof, printed on contemporary laid paper with watermark "Lion" (Woodward 37, referred to as typical of typography Giolito), with wide margins, in perfect condition. Engraved by Enea Vico.
Rare and important map of Germany, in his first state. The map is derived from the collaboration between the Gastaldi and Giolito de Ferrari, two Piedmontese active in Venice. The map, is based on the lost map by Heinrich Zell, made in 1549 or 1550. Its trapezoidal shape, reminiscent of Ptolemy's Geographia, which Gastaldi published in 1548. The map is absolutely full of place names, and influenced all the maps for the area in the sixteenth century, and was frequently reprinted and updated.
Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari is one of the most active and well-known Venetian printers of the sixteenth century, and can be considered the best representative of the renewal of the characters in the sense of greater lightness and elegance, which around 1540 had spread in the Venetian printers, especially in printing new ones (those of F. Marcolini, M. Tranezzino, Comin from Trino, V. Valgrisi, G. Grifio). Giacomo Gastaldi had the great merit to use in the field of cartography and spread the technique of etching, which allowed the engraver to make drawings much more precise and clear, encouraging easier reading. Almost all cartographers had antecedents, however, used the technique of woodcut, much less precise. Enea Vico (Parma 1523 - Ferrara 1567), is antique, draftsman, printmaker and numismatist. After gaining a first literary or artistic training in Parma, and perhaps best known principles of design in the school of Giulio Romano, Aeneas moved to Rome in 1541. In the papal city works for Thomas Barlacchi, printer that appears at his side as an engraver in a series of grotesque published in 1542. In the atmosphere and classical scholar of the city, his style is refined models of Perin del Vaga and Francesco Salviati, still interpreted according to the lesson of Parmigianino. After leaving Rome to Venice, Vico stays in Florence at Cosimo I then settled in Venice, where, according to Vasari, he had gone in 1557. In 1563 he entered the service of Alfonso d'Este in Ferrara, where he remained until his death on August 17, 1567.
Wonderful example of this influential map of Germany.
Literature: a) Almagià (1948): pp. 26-7; Borroni Salvadori (1980): n. 276; Castellani (1876): n. 117; Christie’s Ln (2006): n. 62; Christie’s (2011): n. 55; De Vries (1981): n. 216; Gallo (1954): M, n. 28; Italiaanse kaartenmakers (1996): n. 42; Lafreri (2014): n. 24; Ruge (1904-16): III, n. 29.21 e IV, n. 90.40; Shirley (2004): I, n. 39; Sotheby’s (2005): n. 32; Wieder (1915): p. 6, n. 40; Hellwig (1983): n. 83; Herrmann (1940): p. 17; Karrow (1993): n. 30/70 & 84/5.4; Meurer (1984): n. 30; Meurer (2001): p. 245, n. 3.3.3; Mostra Bergamo (2016): n. 24; Szathmáry (1987): n. 38; Tooley (1939): n. 250 & 251.
Giacomo GASTALDI (1500 circa – 1565 circa)
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Giacomo Gastaldi was born, according to the predicate that accompanies his signature on the card in Spain in 1544, Villafranca Piemonte (today the province of Turin), in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Although counted among the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century, the events of his life are unknown until 1539 when his name appears for the first time in a grant of privilege of printing a "perpetual almanac," now lost. In the early '40s, was to be known in learned circles because he began to work on a series of papers, first published separately and then merged, in the Italian edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice 1548) updated by S. Münster. The volume consisted of 60 cards, 26 of which were the traditional Ptolemaic and 34 new made by Gastaldi. Soon his fame spread as a cartographer in Italy and Europe: cosmographer became the official of the Venetian Republic. The Council of Ten, on behalf of whom had a frescoed hall of the Ducal Palace with the cards in Asia and Africa, was referring to him as: Master James of Piedmont our Cosmographer. Remains unchallenged as its contribution to the Italian maps: a map of Italy printed in 1561, when for the first time the profile of the coastline is made by referring to charts much more precise than those of previous centuries. He had the great merit of use and disclose in cartography the etching technique, which allowed all'incisore to make drawings more accurate and crisp, allowing easier viewing Almost all of them before cartographers had instead used the technique of woodcut, much less precise. He was awarded one hundred and nine maps, which represented virtually the entire world. Considering it was incorrect for a long time a mere disciple of Ramusio, and to both of you must exit from tolemaismo geography, Gastaldi was rediscovered by geography after the Italian unit. At the end of the nineteenth century p.e. Nordenskjöld placed him at the pinnacle of European maps and fifty years after the sixteenth Almagia still its greatest scholar, he rebuilt a good biography.
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Giacomo GASTALDI (1500 circa – 1565 circa)
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Giacomo Gastaldi was born, according to the predicate that accompanies his signature on the card in Spain in 1544, Villafranca Piemonte (today the province of Turin), in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. Although counted among the greatest cartographers of the sixteenth century, the events of his life are unknown until 1539 when his name appears for the first time in a grant of privilege of printing a "perpetual almanac," now lost. In the early '40s, was to be known in learned circles because he began to work on a series of papers, first published separately and then merged, in the Italian edition of Ptolemy's Geography (Venice 1548) updated by S. Münster. The volume consisted of 60 cards, 26 of which were the traditional Ptolemaic and 34 new made by Gastaldi. Soon his fame spread as a cartographer in Italy and Europe: cosmographer became the official of the Venetian Republic. The Council of Ten, on behalf of whom had a frescoed hall of the Ducal Palace with the cards in Asia and Africa, was referring to him as: Master James of Piedmont our Cosmographer. Remains unchallenged as its contribution to the Italian maps: a map of Italy printed in 1561, when for the first time the profile of the coastline is made by referring to charts much more precise than those of previous centuries. He had the great merit of use and disclose in cartography the etching technique, which allowed all'incisore to make drawings more accurate and crisp, allowing easier viewing Almost all of them before cartographers had instead used the technique of woodcut, much less precise. He was awarded one hundred and nine maps, which represented virtually the entire world. Considering it was incorrect for a long time a mere disciple of Ramusio, and to both of you must exit from tolemaismo geography, Gastaldi was rediscovered by geography after the Italian unit. At the end of the nineteenth century p.e. Nordenskjöld placed him at the pinnacle of European maps and fifty years after the sixteenth Almagia still its greatest scholar, he rebuilt a good biography.
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