Pietro Vesconte

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Pietro Vesconte, MS from 1318
Pietro Vescontes Mappa Mundi from Marino Sanudos Liber secretorum , East is above

Pietro Vesconte , also Petrus Vesconte , (* in Genoa , dates unknown) was an Italian cartographer and geographer .

There is evidence of his activity in Venice between 1310 and 1330. He is considered a pioneer of portolan cards and had a significant influence on cartography in the 14th and 15th centuries in Italy and Spain. He was probably the first to regularly date and sign his cards. His portolan map from 1311 is the oldest surviving, signed and dated nautical chart of the European Middle Ages.

Although he was a Genoese by birth , most of his maps were drawn and made out in Venice . A total of seven cards from his workshop are still preserved. His nautical charts from the Mediterranean and the Black Sea to the Sea of ​​Azov are the earliest documents that accurately reproduce the coastlines, while the maps of northern European countries are drawn more summarily. Marino Sanudo's Liber secretorum fidelium crucis contains his map of the world ( Mappa mundi ), as well as maps of the Black Sea, the Mediterranean, the coast of Western Europe and others. a. City maps of Jerusalem , Akkar , Antioch and Krak des Chevaliers .

The maps are drawn on parchment, land masses are shown in white, seas, rivers and lakes are shown in green, and mountains are shown in brown. The big cities are symbolized by crowns, colored flags mark the respective territorial rulers on some maps.

Vesconte Point , a cape in the Antarctic , is named after him .

expenditure

  • Pietro Vesconte - nautical charts. Edition Georg Popp, Würzburg 1978. 46 text pages a. 10 panels.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vesconte World Maps
  2. ^ Vesconte World Maps
  3. ↑ Map of Jerusalem, reprint 1611 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jnul.huji.ac.il
personal data
SURNAME Vesconte, Pietro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vesconte, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cartographer and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century