![]() Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. This guide offers links to resources pertaining to Abraham Ortelius that are held in the Library of Congress.These resources include links to catalogued records for the Theatrvm orbis Terrarvm and other books written by Abraham Ortelius, selected reference sources, selected digitized images of his published works and external links. The Library of Congress holds numerous editions of the atlas. Later volumes were published posthumously. ![]() Twenty-five editions were published from 1570 to the year of Ortelius's death in 1598. The first Theatrvm orbis Terrarvm was published in 1570 and later revised and expanded into 31 editions. Education: Guild of Saint Luke, Antwerp, Belgium. He included a list of the cartographers whose maps were printed in the atlas. Known For: Creator of the first modern atlas of the world. Abraham Ortelius created an atlas with maps of a uniform size, arranged by continents and regions, with descriptions on the reverse of every map. Before the atlas was published custom "map books" were ordered and bound for individual users. Ortelius published the first modern atlas, the Theatrvm orbis Terrarvm or Theatre of the World in Antwerp in 1570. This is the edition of GIOVANNI BOTERO with the maps engraved by ABRAHAM ORTELIUS, prepared and edited by the 'COMPAGNIA BRESCIANA', in Brescia in 1599, published in his fantastic work bearing the name of: 'GIOVANNI BOTERO: Relationi universali. He became a map publisher during the 1560s. He began his career as an engraver and map colorist. It reflects contemporary theories about what remained undiscovered: Ortelius believed there to be a large southern continent which he named Terra Australis Nondum Cognita, or Southern Land Not Yet Known.Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was born in Antwerp, Belgium. The opening double-page spread of the world in this book, engraved by Francis Hogenberg, is among the most widely reproduced early-modern maps. The influence of Elizabethan exploration and the ideas of new and strange lands and peoples are reflected in many of Shakespeare's plays. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana, 1591-2.The first modern world atlas, hand-colored and heightened in goldthe watershed of Renaissance cartography. The idea of the world as a theatre is echoed by William Shakespeare in his naming of the 'Globe' theatre, and in Jaques's famous speech in As You Like It, beginning 'All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players'. The Album Amicorum of the famous Antwerp cartographer Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) is a unique source for the knowledge of cultural life in the Low. With: Parergon And: Nomenclator Ptolemaicus. Theatrum orbis terrarum translates as 'Theatre of the lands of the world'. ![]() More than thirty editions, regularly expanded (53 maps in 1570, 167 in 1612). Produced during the European Age of Discovery, new editions reflected the latest geographic knowledge, and each version contained new maps and information. Original map from an Ortelius Pocket Atlas (German edition). First published in 1570, Ortelius Theatrum orbis Terrarum was a huge success. Interest in it was extended by the continued issue of updated versions. Theatrum orbis terrarum was incredibly successful, despite being the most expensive book produced in the second half of the sixteenth century. Ortelius was one of the leading humanists of the Low Countries and was acquainted with many European intellectuals. He created the book Hooftman had asked for. ![]() This is a French version of Abraham Ortelius’s Theatrum orbis terrarum, considered to be the first modern atlas. Ortelius wasnt thinking in terms of books, but, with Mercators help, he collected the best maps around. ![]()
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