Italian, German and English school
Germany as much as Italy publishes competitive works, however Spain limits itself to receive the translated works that arrive from Holland. But it is France which face up to the Flemish school with two powerful arms, high accuracy and clarity at the time of showing the data. These new maps happened to be published by German, Italian, English and even Dutch workshops. England owns a rich patrimony as far as medieval works and navigation charts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but in the intermediate period it appears an emptiness that they filled up thanks to the production of foreign authors. In the present study catalogue we include a navigation chart as sign of the quality of the English school. The time of splendour in Germany concentrates at the beginning of the eighteenth century that coincides with the arrival to Nuremberg of Johann Baptist Homman. He and his heirs would monopolize the cartography of their time. During the Renaissance, the Italian school count on the best cartographers and publishers of the moment and their maps are commercialized. Its decay coincides with the moment of maximum splendour of the Flemish school. We count here on some singular maps coming from the religious orders interested in knowing the location of their convents and the number of their members. They are therefore thematic maps.
Giacomo Cantelli
Título: Li Regni di Valenza e di Murcia
Autor: Giacomo Cantelli
Lugar de edición: Roma
Editores: Doménico de Rossi
Grabador: Antonio Barbey
Año: 1696
Dimensiones: 558 x 425 mm.
Obra: Mercurio Geografico
Original: F.G.L
Map coming from the fourth and more appreciated edition of the Atlas “Geographic Mercury” due to Giacomo Cantelli, cartographer and librarian of Duke Francisco II of Modena that had been inspired by the work of Sanson.
Giovanni Maria Cassini
Título: Il Regno di Valenza
Autor: Giovanni Maria Cassini
Lugar de edición: Roma
Editores: Calcografía Camerale
Año: 1794
Dimensiones: 315 x 470 mm.
Obra: Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale
Original: F.G.L
Giovanni Maria Cassini (1745-1824) was a well-known engraver of landscapes and works of architecture of the city of Rome and the region of Lazio that also made celestial and terraqueous globes. His main cartographic work was the Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale of 1792-1801. For it he initiated the compilation of the maps that compose it in 1787 by order of the Camerale Chalcography of Rome and he published it in three volumes that contained 55, 70 and 57 charts respectively. It is possibly the best Italian Atlas previous to the political unification.
Título: L'Andalusia con i Regni di Granada e di Murcia
Autor: Giovanni Maria Cassini
Lugar de edición: Roma
Editores: Calcografía Camerale
Año: 1794
Dimensiones: 329 x 474 mm.
Obra: Nuovo Atlante geografico universale
Original: F.G.L
Antonio Zatta
Título: Li Regni di Valenza e Murcia con l’Isole Baleari, e Pitiuse
Autor: Antonio Zatta
Lugar de edición: Venecia
Año: 1775
Dimensiones: 293 x 390 mm.
Obra: Atlante Novisimo
Original: F.G.L
Antonio Zatta (1757-1797), cartographer and Venetian publisher, was author of the Atlante Novisimo (1779) made up of four volumes, which was devised as complement to the Geography of Anton Friedrich Büshing (1724-1793) and occupies a very outstanding place in the history of the Italian cartography due to the decorative richness of his maps. And the Nuovo Atlante (1799) directed to a wider public and to a didactic use, had four editions in less than ten years time.
Título: Andalusia e Granada
Autor: Antonio Zatta
Lugar de edición: Venecia
Año: 1776
Dimensiones: 310 x 400 mm.
Obra: Atlante Novisimo
Original: F.G.L
Silvestro Da Panicale
Título: Provincia Valentiae
Autor: Silvestro Da Panicale
Lugar de edición: Milán
Editores: Giovanni Battista Cassini
Grabador: Durello
Año: 1712
Dimensiones: 214 x 323 mm.
Obra: Chorographica descriptio provinciarum et conventuum Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci Cappocinorum
Original: F.G.L
The peculiarity of the edition of 1643 of the “Atlas of the Capucins”, as well as of the later ones of 1649 and 1654, equipped with great relevance to the produced ones, already in the eighteenth century in Turin and Milan. The 1712 Atlas counted on 51 charts in small format that represented the 46 Capucin provinces of Europe (23 in Italy, 11 in France, 7 in Germany and 5 in Spain). It contains in addition maps of the continent and the four mentioned nations. This atlas was, together with the Theatrum Sabaudiae of 1657, the most important work of the Turinese cartography in the seventeenth century. As a curiosity, we want the reader to pay attention to the detail in which the author makes reference to the town of San Filippo or Xativa, demonstrating a remarkable political eclecticism, along with a good knowledge of the current affairs of the moment.
Título: Provincia Valentiae cum confiniis
Autor: Silvestro da Panicale
Lugar de edición: Roma
Editores: Giovanni de Montecalerio
Grabador: Maximus de Guchen, Bernardinus Burdigalensis & Lodovicus a Monteregali.
Año: 1643
Dimensiones: 213 x 307 mm.
Obra: Chorographica descriptio provinciarum et conventuum Fratrum Minorum S. Francisci Cappocinorum
Original: F.G.L
Herederos De Homann
Título: Carte de Sevilla. Sevilla Regnum in suos Archiepiscopatos Episcopatos et Praefecturas divisum
Autor: Herederos de Homann
Lugar de edición: Nuremberg
Editores: Herederos de Homann
Año: 1781
Dimensiones: 449 x 569 mm.
Original: F.G.L
Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724). Publisher and German engraver, he was established in Nuremberg. In 1707 he published his first atlas, Atlas Novus, being appointed member of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin. In 1715, after the publication of the Neuer Atlas, hi was appointed Geographer of the Emperor. After his death in 1724 his family continued with the business under the name of Heirs of Homann, publishing the Grosser Atlas and the Greater Atlas.
Título: Granada, Cordova et Gienensis Regna
Autor: Herederos de Homann
Lugar de edición: Nuremberg
Editores: Herederos de Homann
Año: 1782
Dimensiones: 475 x 590 mm.
Original: F.G.L
John Seller
Título: A Chart of the Sea Coast of Spain
Autor: John Seller
Lugar de edición: Londres
Editores: Nout & Page
Grabador: James Clark
Año: 1670
Dimensiones: 475 x 590 mm.
Obra: Atlas Maritumus
Original: F.G.L
John Seller (1664-1703), was hydrographer of the King Carlos II of England and famous constructor of navigation instruments. He made such important works as the Atlas Maritimus in 1670 and the English Pilot between 1671 and 1672 that even served as guide to British sailors of eighteenth century.
