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Nautical Atlas of Battista Agnese
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Maps |
|---|---|
| Spatial Coverage | Veneto Venice Italy |
| Temporal Coverage | 1541 |
| Abstract | Battista Agnese (1514-64) was a masterful geographer and mapmaker. Born in Genoa, he worked in Venice from 1536 to 1564 and became one of the most important figures in Renaissance cartography. Researchers differ on the total number of manuscript atlases created by Agnese; he produced at least 39 portolan, or maritime, atlases, ten of them signed and dated. All are distinguished by their neat calligraphy and are esteemed for their high quality and beauty. None was intended for use on board ship; they served as ceremonial gifts and as adornments to the libraries of the well-to-do. This atlas contains 20 pages of maps. A heraldic bookplate of the court library in Munich appears at the front of the book, followed by declination tables and the zodiac. On the oval world map, the continents appear in green, with somewhat speculative outlines of North and South America. Cherubs, or wind heads, representing the classical twelve-point winds from which modern compass directions evolved surround the map. Other maps show the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, and the Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black Seas. Characteristic of all Agnese atlases are the routes of travels recorded on the map of the world. The Munich copy presented here shows, in blue, Magellan's voyage from Lisbon, through the straits named after him, to the Moluccas, and the return voyage of the one surviving ship around the Cape of Good Hope (1519--22). A second line--faintly discernible, originally inscribed in silver--traces Pizarro's voyage of 1521, which started from Cadiz, Spain, and crossed the Isthmus of Panama to reach the west coast of South America, thus inaugurating the Spanish conquest of Peru. |
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| Access Restriction | Open |
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| Subject Keyword | Venice World Maps Mappae Mundi Discoveries in Geography Francisco Pizarro 1519 To 1541 Coastlines Veneto Nautical Charts Portolan Charts Maps |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Italy--Veneto--Venice |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | 1519 to 1541 |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Coastlines |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Discoveries in geography |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Magalhães, Fernão de, died 1521 |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Mappae mundi |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Nautical charts |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Pizarro, Francisco, approximately 1475-1541 |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Portolan charts |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | World maps |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Map |
