HOEFNAGEL, GEORG: VIEW OF SIBENIK, POREC, MODON
Inventory number 300
Author: HOEFNAGEL, GEORG
Original title: Sibinium, Parens, Modon
Publishing year: 1576
Place of publishing and publisher: Köln
Format: 35 x 49 cm
Technique: Coloured copper engraving
The description of this view is shown in this Collection under no. 86 (for Sibenik) and no. 88 (for Porec). The third town, Modon, was probably presented here due to the fact that it was also owned by Venice and formed an important trade, cultural and military centre.
HOEFNAGEL, GEORG
HOEFNAGEL, GEORG [JORIS] (1542-1600), a Belgian painter and topographer. Travelling around the world, he created over 100 vedute for the work Civitates Orbis Terrarum. This monumental work in six volumes was published by Georg Braun (1541-1622), a German topographer and geographer, and the famous Frans [Francius] Hogenberg (1535-1590), a Flemish artist and copper-plate engraver who engraved maps for the famous Ortelius’s atlas entitled Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. In the period from 1573 to 1590, together with Georg Braun he published several editions of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, which was entitled Theatrum nobiliu oppidorum orbis terrarum, Colonia Agr. 1576 in its edition from 1576.
