GREECE - SALAMANCA, FRANCESCO.
GREECE - SALAMANCA, FRANCESCO. Graeciae chorographia . Rome: Francesco Salamanca, published before 1558. Engraved map of Greece, on two joined sheets, 414 x 619mm. A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY IMPORTANT MAP OF GREECE. It is the only confirmed work of Francesco Salamanca, who worked for his father, the eminent Rome cartographer Antonio, and who briefly inherited the latter's partnership with Antonio Lafreri (1562-1563). This map was based on the celebrated map of Nikolaos Sophianos, a Greek scholar who rose to prominance while in the service of the Roman Curia. While in Venice, he encountered the Spanish ambassodor to the Serene Republic, Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, who agreed to finance Sophianos' obsession with producing a ground-breaking map of Greece, that would decisively depart from Ptolemaic orthodoxy. Konrad Gesner noted that after extensive fact-finding missions to Greece and the acquisition of the best manuscript sources, that around 1543 Sophinaos had succeeed in creating the most geographically accurate map of the region yet produced. His earliest surviving edition dates from 1545. Salamanca's interpretation is especially elegant, a masterpiece of engraving by Sebastiano di Ré, the artistry eptiomised by the exquisite Classical title cartouche. This rare map has only appeared once at auction in the last twenty years. Karrow no.71/1.5, Tooley:1939 no.284, Woodward:1996 watermark 292, Zacharakis no.2036
GREECE - SALAMANCA, FRANCESCO.
GREECE - SALAMANCA, FRANCESCO. Graeciae chorographia . Rome: Francesco Salamanca, published before 1558. Engraved map of Greece, on two joined sheets, 414 x 619mm. A VERY FINE EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY IMPORTANT MAP OF GREECE. It is the only confirmed work of Francesco Salamanca, who worked for his father, the eminent Rome cartographer Antonio, and who briefly inherited the latter's partnership with Antonio Lafreri (1562-1563). This map was based on the celebrated map of Nikolaos Sophianos, a Greek scholar who rose to prominance while in the service of the Roman Curia. While in Venice, he encountered the Spanish ambassodor to the Serene Republic, Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, who agreed to finance Sophianos' obsession with producing a ground-breaking map of Greece, that would decisively depart from Ptolemaic orthodoxy. Konrad Gesner noted that after extensive fact-finding missions to Greece and the acquisition of the best manuscript sources, that around 1543 Sophinaos had succeeed in creating the most geographically accurate map of the region yet produced. His earliest surviving edition dates from 1545. Salamanca's interpretation is especially elegant, a masterpiece of engraving by Sebastiano di Ré, the artistry eptiomised by the exquisite Classical title cartouche. This rare map has only appeared once at auction in the last twenty years. Karrow no.71/1.5, Tooley:1939 no.284, Woodward:1996 watermark 292, Zacharakis no.2036
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