File:1657 Jansson Map of Germany (Germania) - Geographicus - Germaniae-jansson-1657.jpg

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Jan Janssonius: Germaniae Veteris Nova Descriptio.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jan Janssonius  (1588–1664)  wikidata:Q949492 s:it:Autore:Johannes Janssonius
 
Alternative names
Jan Jansson, Jan Jansz, Jan Janszoon, Joannes Janssonius
Description Dutch cartographer, publisher, printseller and visual artist
Date of birth/death 1588 Edit this at Wikidata 11 July 1664 / 1664 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Arnhem Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1616 until 1664
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1616-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1664-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Amsterdam (1612–1664); Arnhem (1612–1612) Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q949492
Title
Germaniae Veteris Nova Descriptio.
Description
English: This is a remarkable example of Jan Jansson's 1657 mapping of Germany in antiquity. Depicts a richly forested region covering from Gaul to Dacia and from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea. Cartographically this map exhibits heavy influence from a very similar map of the same name published by A. Ortelius in his 1597 Parergon . Based on Greek and Roman sources including Pliny, Strabo, Virgil, Ceasar, and others. Ships and monsters decorate the seas. A decorative title cartouche depicting curious warlike figures in animal skins appears in the lower right quadrant. A second cartouche appears in the lower left. This remarkable map was published in volume six, the Orbis Antiquus , of Jan Jansson's Novus Atlas .
Date 1657 (undated)
Dimensions height: 15.5 in (39.3 cm); width: 19.5 in (49.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,15.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,19.5U218593
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Geographicus link: Germaniae-jansson-1657
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Jansson, J., Novus Atlas, Sive Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: In quo Orbis Antiquus, Seu Geographia Vetus, Sacra & Profana exhibetur, Volume 6, 1657.

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