![]() Creating illustrations based on another artist's work was nothing new, everyone was coping someone. The four elements and the four seasons are replicas from Hendrick Goltizius’s prints from 15. The illustrations of the planets and the seven wonders of the ancient world are drawn nearly identical to Marteen Van Heenskercks’s prints from 15 respectively. ![]() In fact, many of the cartes-à-figures are mirror images of these artist's work. It is more accurate to say that Blaeu copied the prints and paintings of these artists. Blaeu was a prominent publisher of decorative borders and vignettes and stylized the era with his cartes-à-figures.Ī Note About Copyright and t he Art Movements of the Renaissance, Baroque, and Mannerist Periodīlaeu’s Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula draws inspiration for its illustrations and cartes-à-figures from two Dutch painters and printmakers: Maarten Van Heemskerck and Hendrick Goltzius. These illustrations are elaborately designed with details and adorned with colorants. The Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydographica Tabula features the planets in proper alignment, the four seasons, the four elements, and even the seven ancient wonders of the world. Despite the geographical misconceptions, the Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula was Blaeu’s standard map and was included in all his atlases until 1662.ĭutch cartes-à-figures are typically represented in human or animal forms of natural events, spiritual or celestial observations, and even places. To note, the elongated northwest coast of America does not exist and neither does the strait that connects South America to Antartica. Blaeu’s map contains numerous inaccuracies of the world, based on Meractor’s projection. The rectangular shape and lines of latitude and longitude were reflective of Blaeu’s incorporation of Gerhardus Mercator’s world projection released in 1569. ![]() The map exemplifies the knowledge at the time through the illustration of the five discovered planets as well as the standard 17th century misconceptions in geography. ![]() The Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula or “A New Geographic and Hydrographic Depiction of All the Lands of the World” was composed by Willem Blaeu in Amsterdam in 1630. ![]()
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