Insula de Metileme
| Reference: | S26296 |
| Author | Natale BONIFACIO |
| Year: | 1568 ca. |
| Zone: | Lesbos |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 155 x 210 mm |
€900.00
| Reference: | S26296 |
| Author | Natale BONIFACIO |
| Year: | 1568 ca. |
| Zone: | Lesbos |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 155 x 210 mm |
€900.00
Description
The probably best known cartographic works of the engraver Natale Bonifacio is a serie of maps showing Greek Islands in the Ionian en Aegean Seas. They are all undated and their chronological sequence is difficult to ascertain. Like the larger maps of The IATO these smaller ones were first issued for a loose sheet circulation, and then assembled in booklet form for interested customer. Some of the maps, separately issued, appear in copies of the first edition of Ferrando Bertelli’s “Civitatum aliquot insignorum et locorum magis monitorum exacta delineation cum additione aliquot Insularum principalium. Disegni di alcune più illustri città et fortezze del mondo con aggionta di alcune Isole principali”, of 1568. Others are known only from the second edition of the Bertelli book, published by Donato in 1574 and from the undated “Isole Famose…” by Giovanni Francesco Camocio.
As noted by Meurer, due of they small format, they were infrequently added to composite atlases.
Literature
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Gallo (1950): p. 99, n. 44 e p. 99, n. 31; Zacharakis (1992): nn. 217, 1262; Zacharakis (2009): nn. 348, 1888.
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Natale BONIFACIO (Sebenico 1537- ? 1592)
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Engraver, etcher, designer, printer, print publisher and cosmographer, from Sebenico. Active in Venice c. 1570-74,and then in Rome 1575-91.He was proposed for membership of Virtuosi del Pantheon 9 February 1578, where described as “intagliatore in rame”(Orbaan).1579 he was a member of the Confraternity of San Girolamo degli Illirici.The inscription on his tombstone notes his activity as engraver and cosmographer (“aeris caelator divinus ac optimus geographus”).
In Venice his work was published by Camocio, Ferrando Bertelli, Luca Bertelli and Donato Bertelli, Borgaruccio Borgarucci and Nelli.
In Rome his work was published by Lafrery, Claudio Duchetti, Lorenzo Vaccari, and Nicolas van Aelst. His prints included maps, antiquities, devotional and didactic subjects.Plates for Domenico Fontana’s Della trasportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano 1590.
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Literature
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Gallo (1950): p. 99, n. 44 e p. 99, n. 31; Zacharakis (1992): nn. 217, 1262; Zacharakis (2009): nn. 348, 1888.
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Natale BONIFACIO (Sebenico 1537- ? 1592)
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Engraver, etcher, designer, printer, print publisher and cosmographer, from Sebenico. Active in Venice c. 1570-74,and then in Rome 1575-91.He was proposed for membership of Virtuosi del Pantheon 9 February 1578, where described as “intagliatore in rame”(Orbaan).1579 he was a member of the Confraternity of San Girolamo degli Illirici.The inscription on his tombstone notes his activity as engraver and cosmographer (“aeris caelator divinus ac optimus geographus”).
In Venice his work was published by Camocio, Ferrando Bertelli, Luca Bertelli and Donato Bertelli, Borgaruccio Borgarucci and Nelli.
In Rome his work was published by Lafrery, Claudio Duchetti, Lorenzo Vaccari, and Nicolas van Aelst. His prints included maps, antiquities, devotional and didactic subjects.Plates for Domenico Fontana’s Della trasportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano 1590.
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