Atlante Veneto
The Atlante Veneto is a thirteen- volume vedute and map series that Vincenzo Maria Coronelli published in Venice between 1691 and 1701, with the 1689 “isolari” on islands and other works on cities and fortresses preceding it. A total of 1200 panels were created, around 200 of them in the formato imperiale of 72 × 50 cm. In the run-up to the publication, the aforementioned volume appeared in 1689 on the most important islands, cities and fortresses in Europe in two volumes with 240 panels and vedutas. The first reprints were made in 1691 and 1695. The atlante was to continue Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior published in 1635 .
history
Coronelli, born in Venice on August 16, 1650, became a minorite brother and lived first in San Niccolo della Lattuga from 1665 to 1671, then in Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari from 1671 to 1674 . In 1673 he acquired his doctorate at the Roman Collegium Santo Bonaventura . Coronelli became a famous cartographer who is said to have engraved more than 400 maps himself, then an encyclopaedist, cosmographer and manufacturer of globes . From 1681 to 1683 he lived in Paris, where he became a royal geographer at the court of King Louis XIV and maintained contacts with the best French cartographers. After his return to Venice he was supposed to devote himself to his work without being disturbed, but in 1699 he was asked to go on an embassy trip to Constantinople . In his absence he was represented by Giuseppe Frezza from the Accademia degli Argonauti .
The atlante veneto , dedicated to Doge Francesco Morosini , is on the one hand an atlas and on the other hand a treatise on geography in general with additions and explanations on cosmography, the construction of maps, astronomy , but also on the most recent discoveries, the seas or descriptions of the states with their cities , Peoples, customs. There is also a geografia sacra with its lists of patriarchs , archbishops and bishops. Of the 35 large-scale maps based on the Mercator projection , those of Asia, the Danube (in 6 sheets), the Pacific and North America are particularly noteworthy. In addition to the atlante , six maps were published separately in a Corso geografico for two years, although these had already been made between 1688 and 1692. In addition, works with varying numbers of cards were published in various editions. Coronelli's Idea dell'Universo (with numerous astrological references) was also published separately, followed by a work on the Golfo di Venezia , the Paris area, China and the Amazon . His Libro dei globi di misure differenti also appeared in 1697 , in which he published 48 maps, as well as Viaggio d'Italia in Inghilterra , a work with 115 plates, in which he used his travel experiences in the Empire and in England to create a kind of travel guide with vedute To create custom representations, city maps. After returning from this trip, volumes 2 (1696) and 3 (1697) of the Atlante veneto appeared , the said Isolario on the islands with an emphasis on the Venetian and English.
In 1705 he returned to Venice after stays in various European countries, where he founded the Accademia Cosmografica degli Argonauti , the first geographical society .
reception
The map series was already considered a rarity in the course of the 18th century, and some considered it dangerously imprecise. On the contrary, Coronelli's map series was of a new kind of accuracy compared to contemporary and older works. The Rio Grande flowed into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time .
literature
- Adam Mosley: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli's Atlante Veneto and the diagrammatic tradition of cosmography , in: Journal for the History of Astronomy 42 (2011) 27–53.
- Donatino Domini, Marica Milanesi, Maria Teresa Di Palma: Vincenzo Coronelli e l'imago mundi , Longo, 1998, p. 24 ff.
- Augusto De Ferrari: CORONELLI, Vincenzo , in: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 29 (1983)
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Remarks
- ^ Nicola Francesco Haym: Biblioteca Italiana ossia Notes de libri rari italiani , Vol. 2, Milan 1773, p. 534.
- ↑ The work was "even dangerous to the boatmen who would have wanted to act accordingly" (Franz de Paula Rosalino: Excerpts from the best literary journals in Europe , Trattner, 1773, p. 61 - Review of Jacques Nicolas Bellin: Déscription géographique du golfe de Venise et de la Morée , Didot, 1771, from which the reviewer adopted the judgment (p. 211)).
- ^ Seymour I. Schwartz: The Mismapping of America , University Rochester Press, 2008, p. 144.