The exhibition presented a selection of historical maps along with some of the printed works that Ortelius used to compile his maps. Featuring maps and plans by John Speed, Blaeu, Braun & Hogenberg, John Ogilby, Saxton, Hondius and Ortelius. Specialising in original 16th and 17th century fine decorative maps and engravings. Get the best deals on Abraham Ortelius Antique Maps, Atlases & Globes when you shop the largest online selection at. His early career was as a business man, and most of his journeys before 1560, were for commercial. In 1547 he entered the Antwerp guild of St Luke as afsetter van Karten. Ortelius started his career as a map colorist. A portrait of Ortelius also graced Rockox’s art room. Maps Perhaps - Antique maps, prints and engravings :: Home. Abraham Ortelius is perhaps the best known and most frequently collected of all sixteenth-century mapmakers. Rockox House was an appropriate choice of venue for the exhibition, because Rockox and Ortelius were friends and shared a passion for collecting coins. He mainly used items from the collection of the Museum Plantin-Moretus. Exhibitionĭr Dirk Imhof, curator of old prints, mounted the exhibition Abraham Ortelius, Under the Spell of Classical Antiquity for Rockox House. Ortelius also collected coins from Roman Imperial times. Closer to home, he visited places such as Tongeren, Trier and Metz. He travelled to Italy, for instance, a journey described in his Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae Partes. The latter includes Philip Burden’s two-volume publication. Our stock covers the world but has a special emphasis on rare maps of the British Isles and North America. Ortelius literally went in search of history. We have over 50 years of experience as dealers in rare maps, original early maps, antique atlases, topographical and decorative prints dating from the fifteenth century onwards. Ortelius 1579 Angliae, Scotiae, et Hiberniae, sive Britannicae. Ortelius 1601 Related items The British Isles by A. In his first edition of the Theatrum he had already referred to locations from antiquity, and his Parergon, a collection of historical maps, showed the history of antiquity and of the European territories from the Roman Empire. Ortelius Sanderus Website Sanderus Antique maps & books Home About us Our catalogue Contact us Terms & conditions 0 England by A. Ortelius had a particular interest in classical antiquity and Biblical history. Ortelius published the first world atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, in 1570, but he was also the first to produce historical maps. He regarded geography as ‘the eye of history’. For Ortelius, history and cartography went hand in hand.

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