Ichnographia Urbis Tuscia Primariae Florentiae Scenographice
DESCRIPTION
This beautiful double map of Florence (Firenze) was published by the heirs of Johann Baptiste Homman, Imperial Geographer to Emperor Charles VI. In its upper portion, the map provides a bird’s eye view of the Tuscan city, the center and its environs easily recognizable today with its well-known architectural landmarks all depicted. Said landmarks are rendered in detail, showing even archways, windows and doors of buildings. The landscape is also rendered in detail, with gardens, orchards and cultivated fields all carefully included. The lower view is a panoramic perspective from the southerly side of the Arno, showing the relative sizes of architectural edifices, the length and breadth of its marvelous defensive walls, along with various people in dress of the early 18th century, all going about their way. The Arno, sometimes friend and sometimes foe of the city wends its way through the center of Florence. Homan was a German engraver and publisher who established himself and his family in Nuremberg in 1702. He published his first atlas, "Atlas Novus" in 1707, and in recognition of this achievement, he was elected to the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 1715 Homann was appointed Imperial Geographer to the Emperor. Homann died in 1724 and his business was continued by his family under the name Homann's Heirs into the late 18th century.
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