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BRONZE Seller in Bergamo, Italy
Print from the 17th century depicting a globe made by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. Coronelli was a Venetian friar but also a cartographer, inventor, publisher and can be considered one of the most famous globe makers of the 17th century; famous are in fact those made for the Louis XIV and destined for the Palace of Versailles. He lived mainly in Venice, at the Convent of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, where he founded the Accademia degli Argonauti, considered the oldest geographical society in the world. In 1690 he published the Atlante Veneto, including the Book of Globes, believed to be the first Italian atlas. He was Official Cosmographer of the Venetian Republic and complemented his cartographic production with that of the first "modern" geographic encyclopedia. Print size without the frame: 32 x 64 cm.
ID: 60774-1664478727-46808
