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Search - Braun/Hogenberg, Cities of the World - Complete Edition of the Colour Plates 1572-1617 (Civitates Orbis Terrarum)

Braun/Hogenberg Cities of the World Complete Edition of the Colour Plates 15721617 - Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Author: Stephan Fussel, Rem Koolhaas

Google Earth's ancestor: a snapshot of urban life, circa 1600 — History's most opulent collection of town maps and illustrations — The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual details, two folding maps, as well ... more »as selected extracts from the original text and an in-depth commentary. First published in Cologne 1572-1617.

More than four centuries after the first volume was originally published in Cologne, Braun and Hogenberg's magnificent collection of town map engravings, Civitates orbis terrarum, has been brought back to life with this reprint taken from a rare and superbly preserved original set of six volumes, belonging to the Historische Museum in Frankfurt. Produced between 1572 and 1617 - just before the extensive devastation wreaked by the Thirty Years' War - the work contains 564 plans, bird's-eye views, and map views of all major cities in Europe, plus important cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun, and largely engraved by cartographer Franz Hogenberg, the Civitates was intended as a companion volume for Abraham Ortelius's 1570 world atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum. Over a hundred different artists and cartographers contributed to the sumptuous artwork, which not only shows the towns but also features additional elements, such as figures in local dress, ships, ox-drawn carts, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, that help convey the situation, commercial power, and political importance of the towns they accompany.

The Civitates gives us a comprehensive view of urban life at the turn of the 17th century. TASCHEN's reprint includes all of the city plates, accompanied by selected extracts from Braun's texts on the history and contemporary significance of each urban center as well as translations of the Latin cartouches. A detailed commentary places each city map in its cartographical and cultural context, and examines earlier sources and later editions. Rounding off this comprehensive publication is a separate introductory essay examining the Civitates in its cultural and historical context. From Paris and London to Cairo and Jerusalem, readers will find many a familiar city to zoom back in time to and explore - in fact, many of the maps can still be used for orientation in historical town centers today.

ISBN-13: 9783822852729
ISBN-10: 3822852724
Publication Date: 12/1/2008
Pages: 600
Edition: Mul
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Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
Book Type: Hardcover
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Arts & Photography >> History & Criticism >> General
Arts & Photography >> History & Criticism >> Schools, Periods & Styles >> Baroque
Arts & Photography >> History & Criticism >> Schools, Periods & Styles >> Rococo
History >> Europe >> England >> General
History >> Europe >> France >> General
History >> Europe >> General
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