Meganck unpacks the publications (visual and textual) that emerged from these trips: first, describing the historical map of the Arx Brittanica and the scholarly conversation between Ortelius, Hubertus Goltzius and Marcus Laurinus and second, the 1575 trip taken by Ortelius with Johannes Vivianus, Hieronymus Scholiers, and Hans van Schille with the resulting 1584 publication by Christopher Plantin of the Itinerarium per nonnullas Galliae Belgicae partes. Meganck describes her chapters as evocative of the many journeys of Ortelius’s life, and on her figures 6 and 7, maps of Europe and the Low Countries from the Theatrum orbis terrarium, she has plotted dots corresponding to Ortelius’s known correspondents in order to suggest the wide-ranging geography of this social network.Ĭhapter 2 focuses on two expeditions headed by Ortelius, approximately a decade apart, aimed at investigating ancient Batavia and Gallia Belgica. Movement, voluntary and involuntary, defined this social network. One is struck in reading Meganck’s account at her subjects’ high degree of mobility – setting off on exploratory missions to view antique ruins, fleeing religious or political persecution, or seeking commercial opportunities. Yet a trading zone is a fixed locality in time and space, despite its invocation of distances traversed. In the opening chapter, Meganck describes Ortelius’s social network as a trading zone, a space in which ideas and objects were produced by social interaction.
The result is a text that usefully illuminates the links between artists, cartographers, antiquarians, humanists, poets, and publishers in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, comprising a book that will be a necessary point of reference for scholars and students of the period. Foregrounding the collaborative nature of early modern antiquarian research, the seven chapters of Meganck’s wide-ranging study each focus on a set of relationships, shared interests, and/or artistic projects, involved which Ortelius in some capacity. Interesting.Erudite Eyes considers a range of objects – prints, maps, drawings, poems and paintings – produced by a network of artists, merchants, and humanists around geographer Abraham Ortelius. Myers Reese, Montana Quarterly Fall, 2014. Hand with its essential purpose still intact.” It remains a map by definition, butīy execution it is now an ornate showpiece fitįor the living room wall, touched by an artist’s Vividly colored snapshot of what the land Plat of Montana Territory blossoms into a “In her hands, a torn black-and-white 1883 “Middleton is doing more than making art, she’s helping to preserve history.” Chris Peterson, Hungry Horse News May 13, 2015. “She’s turned fascination into an art - finding, restoring and replicating old maps, then creating art on top of the prints.” Abby Eisenburg, Winona Daily News June 13, 2013. This is where Lisa Middleton…loves to use her special talent in color, blending and her sensitivity to the joys that maps hold for us as collectors.” Sandy Erdman, Rochester Post Bulletin July 4, 2015. “The most interesting appeal is the color and beauty of the maps. It is one of 87 pieces that are included in the first edition of his signature work mentioned above, and is highly regarded as a groundbreaking piece of cartography from Ortelius. It is significant in that it holds the distinction of being the first printed map of the southeastern portion of the Americas. La Florida Gvastecan Pervviae Avriferae Regionis Typvs is beautifully drawn and has great detail. The work pictured here is perhaps one of his most well known. Quite an accomplishment for someone with so little on their tombstone. Map making became more effective and was henceforth more efficient. His suggestions allowed the craft to flourish and grow in a more uniform manner. Up until that point there were no guidelines so map makers made maps to their own scale and had their own unique way of labeling them as well.
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Yet his most noteworthy contribution is that he was able to unify other cartographers around a central pattern concerning how to make world maps. He could surmise how the continents had separated from Africa and drifted to the current locations. He is also credited as the first person to come up with the theory of continental drift. It was known as Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (The First Modern World). For starters, he compiled a world atlas that was published in the1570s. While he was obviously a peaceable individual, you have to wonder how he rose to prominence? As it turns out, there are several.
He was so non-assuming that his tombstone in Antwerp reads…Quietis Cultor sine bit, uxore, prole, which means, served quietly, without accusation, wife, and offspring. La Florida Gvastecan Pervviae Avriferae Regionis Typvsīorn in Antwerp Belgium in 1527, Abraham Ortelius was one of the most non-assuming influential cartographers the craft has ever seen.
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