Made in Venice in 1553, this map of the Holy Land belongs to a nautical atlas of 33 charts attributed to the Genoese cartographer Battista Agnese, active in the leading humanist and mercantile circles of the Serenissima. The depiction combines the portolan tradition – evident in the dense network of rhumb lines and the compass rose – with a devotional reading of the biblical sites of Palestine and Syria. Rivers, mountain ranges and fortified cities are meticulously drawn and named in Latin, while Jerusalem occupies a central, iconographically emphasised position. The orientation and the wind figures underline the cosmographic and spiritual dimension of the region, conceived for a cultivated, perhaps princely, patron interested as much in navigation as in the sacred geography of the Levant.
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Print on handmade Amalfi paper Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in) With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in) Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges Frame: light brown beech wood and wood pulp, handmade
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