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Giovanni Battista Agnese was an influential cartographer of the 16th century who produced some of the most highly regarded portolan atlases of his era. Born in Genoa, he established a thriving workshop in Venice where he compiled and illuminated detailed manuscript nautical charts. His atlases, typi...
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Renowned illuminated portolan atlases, substantial surviving corpus, and enduring collector and institutional esteem support an elite historical reputation.
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João Teixeira Albernaz I was a prominent Portuguese cartographer active in the 17th century, known for his detailed manuscript maps and atlases. Operating during the era of the Iberian Union, he produced extensive geographic documentation of the Portuguese Empire, including regions like Brazil, the...
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Major Portuguese manuscript atlas maker documenting empire; strong specialist reputation and substantial corpus.
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Fernão Vaz Dourado was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer known for producing several detailed manuscript atlases between 1568 and 1580. His work reflects the state of Portuguese maritime exploration during the Renaissance, focusing on the coastlines of the Indian Ocean and Asia. Dourado's atlas...
Battista Agnese was a Genoese cartographer who worked in Venice during the sixteenth century and specialized in manuscript nautical atlases. His surviving portolan atlases combine coastlines, compass networks, place names, and sailing information with elaborate decoration prepared for wealthy patron...
Lopo Homem (c. 1495–1572) was a 16th-century Portuguese cartographer who played a crucial role in documenting the geographic discoveries of the Age of Exploration. He was appointed as the royal cosmographer to King Manuel I in 1517, making him responsible for the official charts of the Portuguese em...
Diego Homem (1521–1576) was a Portuguese cartographer from a Lisbon chartmaking family and later worked in England. He is best known for the Queen Mary Atlas, a richly decorated manuscript atlas produced around 1558 with portolan-style charts of the world known to Europeans. Its pages combine coasta...
Andre Homem was a sixteenth-century Portuguese cartographer and cosmographer who produced manuscript nautical charts during the period of Iberian overseas expansion. His surviving works include a large world map dated 1559, now held by the Bibliotheque nationale de France, that presents coastlines,...
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