Photo, Print, Drawing Panorama of Florence, 1557. Florentia
About this Item
Title
- Panorama of Florence, 1557.
Other Title
- Florentia
Summary
- This panoramic view of Florence in 1557 is from the collection of cityscapes and broadsheets that once belonged to the Swedish statesman Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622-86). On the left side of the engraving is the coat of arms of the Medici family; on the right, the coat of arms of the city of Florence. The Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie collection consists of 187 engravings from the late 1500s and early 1600s. The prints originally were bound, ordered, and assigned a number. The early provenance of the collection is uncertain. After perusing the correspondence of King Gustav II Adolf and the Dutch philologist and diplomat Johannes Rutgersius, the former national librarian of Sweden E.W. Dahlgren conjectured that the pictures were ordered by the king and purchased by Rutgersius. The collection later was incorporated into the library of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, then deposited in the Archive of Antiquities at the end of the 17th century, only to be transferred to the Royal Library in 1780. An exhaustive catalog of the collection was published by Isak Collijn in 1915, Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie's samling af äldre stadsvyer och historiska planscher i Kungl. Biblioteket. Dahlgren provides an account of the early provenance of the collection in his article, "Miscellanea" in Nordisk tidskrift för bok- och biblioteksväsen (1920).
Created / Published
- Antwerp : Hieronimus Cock, 1557.
Headings
- - Italy--Tuscany--Florence
- - 1557
- - Architecture, Baroque
- - Architecture, Renaissance
- - Cherubs (Art)
- - Cities and towns
- - City walls
- - Cityscapes
- - Panoramic views
- - Santa Maria del Fiore (Cathedral : Florence, Italy)
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - "Shelfmark: KoB DelaG 35"--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
- - Original resource extent: 1 etching ; 36 x 130 centimeters.
- - Original resource at: National Library of Sweden.
- - Content in Latin.
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Source Collection
- Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie Collection
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021670735
Online Format
- compressed data
- image