Antonio Lafreri

Antonio Lafreri (also Antoine Lafréry , * 1512 in Orgelet , France , † 1577 in Rome ) was a Rome-based printer , map dealer and publisher of French origin during the Renaissance . Lafreri was the first to publish volumes of geographical maps in a uniform format, the so-called Lafreri atlases.

Life

Lafreri came from Franche-Comté and settled in Rome , where he came into possession of numerous copper plates by Marcantonio Raimondis . In the 1940s he published his own prints with views of ancient and modern Rome, and after 1548 over 130 of these prints appeared under the title “Speculum romanaeiae” (A Mirror of the Splendor of Rome). The work was very well received by travelers and made Lafreri the first major publisher of graphics .

Around 1570 Lafreri published a collection of maps in the same format under the title Geographia, tavole modern di geografia de la maggior parte del mondo , while maps of various formats were stapled together in the usual map collections of the time. The title of his Geographia was provided with an engraving of the titan Atlas of Greek mythology, who instead of the vault of heaven carries the globe on his shoulders.

Web links

• Lafreri-Atlas of the study library Dillingen X, 122 - high-resolution digitized version in the culture portal bavarikon
• Lafreri-Atlas of the study library Dillingen X, 123 - high-resolution digitized version in the culture portal bavarikon