Francesco Morosini Doge di Venezia - Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

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Francesco Morosini peloponnesiaco per la Dio grazia CVIII doge di Venetia. Copper engraving of 1695 with watercolor. Measurement of the plate 38 cm x 28. Show the Doge Francesco Morosini. From the opera "Corso Geografico" by the cartographer Vincenzo Maria Coronelli Veneto. Print has some restoration, printed on laid paper without watermark. Engraved by Vincenzo Maria Coronelli (1650-1718), was an Italian Franciscan, cartographer and encyclopedist. In 1660 he moved to Ravenna and learned the art of the woodcut. The skills learned here by Coronelli became fundamental for his next production. In 1663, young age, he entered the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Conventual, becoming a novice in 1665. In 1666, only sixteen years old, after studying mathematics and geography, he published his first work, a "Perpetual calendar profane." Since 1678, Coronelli began work in geography and was commissioned the construction of the globes that represent the earth and celestial bodies to the Duke of Parma, Ranuccio II Farnese. Coronelli also has dedicated 30 years of his life writing an innovative Library universal sacred-profane. First major encyclopedia organized in alphabetical order, this book had to count 300,000 entries in 45 volumes. Only the first 7 have been completed.

€ 400.00