Lot 128: GREECE - LIGORIO, PIRRO (c.1513/4-1583).

Vedrai diusi I termini di tutta la Grecia. Rome: Michele Tramezzino, 1561. Engraved map of Greece by Sebastiano di Ré, 480 x 685mm, on a Royal Sheet, trimmed to lower long margin. (Two small tears to lower margin, light discolouration to upper-centre of map.)

A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT MAP OF GREECE. It was devised by the great antiquarian and architect Pirro Ligorio, who was then associated with the Rome workshop that Michele Tramezzino operated with his older brother Francesco. The map was completed while Ligorio was restoring various churches and villas for Pope Pius IV, having earlier been expelled from St.Peter's by an ill-tempered Michelangelo. Roberto Almagià referred to this map as "a very remarkable production", that presents Greece in a unique geographical form, epistemologically independent of other contemporary maps. The beautiful engraving by Sebastiano di Ré grants the viewer an Apollonian view of all Hellenistic lands from the Adriatic to Asia Minor. The heavily detailed perspective features the numerous mountains, towns and islands in which the theatre of Classical mythology was acted out. This map was copied by Gerard de Jode of Antwerp in his 1578 and 1593 maps of Greece. Karrow no, Tooley:1939 no.283, Woodward:1996 watermark 194, Zacharakis no.1368.

GREECE, TURKEY AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

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