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1642 MERIAN, M. - ROMA
ROMA
| Maker: | MERIAN, M. | |
| Date: | Frankfurt, ca.1642 | |
| Colored: | Uncolored. | |
| Size: | 310 x 712 mm / 12.2 x 28 inches | |
| Condition: | Very good condition! Printed on two joined sheets, as issued. Few lightly brownish spots present. | |
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A large and detailed birds eye view of Rome and the Vatican by Matthaus Merian using the late XVI century eastward oriented model which shows the city right after the city’s re-organization completed by Pope Sixtus V.
The graphic view shows many of the important buildings, churches and monuments, including many that have subsequently been demolished. From the atlas “Theatrum Europaeum“, published by Matthäus Merian in Franfurt am Main.
Matthäus Merian Sr. (1593-1650)
Matthäus Merian Sr. (Switzerland, 1593-1650) and Jr. (Switzerland, 1621-1687). Matthäus Merian, the leading German illustrator of the 17th century, was born in Basel in 1593. He learned copperplate engraving in Zurich and later worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, Paris, and the Low Countries. In 1618, he went to Frankfurt, where he married the eldest daughter of J.T. de Bry, publisher and engraver. After de Bry died in 1623, he took over his business. De Bry’s business remained in Merian’s family until 1726, when a fire destroyed it.In 1635, he began the series Theatrum Europaeum. Between 1642 and 1688, he published Martin Zeiller’s Topographia Germaniae, with more than 2,000 plates etched and engraved by himself and his sons Matthäus and Caspar. He also took over and completed the later parts and editions of the Grand Voyages and Petits Voyages, which de Bry had started in 1590. Matthäus Merian died after in 1650 in Bad Schwalbach near Wiesbaden.
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