Ligorio's rare map of Flanders

Ligorio's rare map of Flanders.

Title Descriptio Totius Galliae Belgicae.

Author LIGORIO, Pirro.

Publisher Michele Tramezzino.

Publication place Rome and Venice.

Publication date 1558.

Engraved map with original hand colour.

Notes

A map of Flanders after the Neapolitan artist Pirro Ligorio (1512-1583), who worked under Popes Paul IV and Pius IV. He started to make maps in the late 1550s as a result of his archaeological explorations, which gave him geographical experience.

"The geography of the map comes directly from Boileau, who had published a map of Belgium in Antwerp the previous year. Tramezini had close business connections with Holland, and might easily have obtained a copy; but as Tooley points out, the Ligorio map corresponds most closely with an anonymous Italian copy of Boileau's map. This copy, like Boileau's original, is oriented with south at the top" (Karrow).

Rare we are unable to trace an original coloured example of the map appearing on the market in the last 40 years.

Bibliography

Karrow 51/7; Tooley 1939, no. 132.

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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