Scaly, toothy sea monsters lurk in the coastal waters. Volcanoes spout red, hand-colored flames. The maps date from 1547 to 1808 and capture Iceland’s mountainous terrain and jagged coastline in vivid, although not always accurate, detail. Knoff, a Norwegian surveyor working for the Danish government whose map was suppressed for political reasons. The exhibition includes maps by Gerhard Mercator, as well as Athanasius Kircher, whose maps were the first to depict ocean currents, and T. The exhibition, Land Fyrir Stafni / Land Ahoy, opened in 2014 at the Akureyri Museum, a fine small museum located a stone’s throw from Eyjafjörður, a narrow fjord hemmed in by steep, glacier-sculpted mountains. In the regional capital of Akureyri, on the north coast of Iceland, 76 historic and beautiful maps of the land of fire and ice are currently on view.
Remote, geologically active Iceland has intrigued adventurous travelers ever since its settlement by Vikings in the ninth century. Courtesy of the National and University Library of Iceland. It was anonymously engraved in the year 1585 and is now attributed to Gudbrandur Thorláksson, bishop of Hólar. Amongst the new maps is one of Iceland (Islandia). In 1590 Abraham Ortelius published a new supplement, Additamentum IV, to his atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum. Read more "William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble: A Golden Anniversary" Opens May 4Īmherst, MA -The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art celebrates the golden anniversary. Los Angeles - A fascinating letter by Albert Einstein on the Jewish People’s rights. Read more Einstein Letter Defending his Jewish Heritage to be Auctioned New York - Swann Galleries’ Printed & Manuscript Americana sale on Thursday, April 16. Read more Printed & Manuscript Americana Realizes $1 Million at Swann
Los Angeles - An pair of extraordinary letters by Gonzo journalist Hunter S. New York - Nineteenth- and twentieth-century luminaries, science-fiction and more form Swann Galleries’ 19th. Read more Bond Abounds in Literature Auction at Swann on May 14 New York - Swann Galleries’ sale of Classic & Contemporary Photographs on Thursday, April. Read more A Record for Peruvian Photographer MartÃn Chambi at Swann Galleries Read more Waverly Rare Books to Conduct May 2 Judaica Auctionįalls Church, VA - Waverly Rare Books, a division of Quinn’s Auction Galleries, will. West Palm Beach, FL - On April 18, runway action halted temporarily as fashionistas. The engraving is now on show for everyone to enjoy at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp.In the News Sale of Karl Lagerfeld Original Fashion Drawings Attracts Intense Worldwide Bidding He quickly became one of the most frequently seen visitors to the Plantin-Moretus printing house, which printed most of his atlases. It was to become the starting point for the development of Modernism.Īfter beginning his career as a colourist, Abraham Ortelius (1527–1598) became a map maker and then humanist.
In 1516, the book’s appearance challenged the way of thinking about the ideal society and it became the most influential book ever to be written in the former Netherlands. In this biting satire on England and the Europe of his time, the famous humanist described the ideal and imaginary island of Utopia, a place governed entirely by reason. Ortelius took his inspiration from the famous work Utopia or the Treaty on the Best Form of Government, written in large part in 1515 (in Latin) by the English lawyer and statesman Thomas More (1477–1535), during his stay in Antwerp as part of a diplomatic mission. The map is unparalleled, hence its iconic status. This Fund has as its objective to enrich the collections of Belgian museums with masterpieces of our national heritage. The King Baudouin Foundation was able to buy the map, engraved on copper, thanks to the Charles Vreeken Fund. It is this work that has been acquired by the King Bedouin Foundation and returned to its original home. Printed in just twelve examples in Antwerp, today only one copy remains. Around 1595–1596, the famous Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius imagined a map of the imaginary island that Thomas More had described in this work Utopia.
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