Battista Agnese
Illustration — Worldmap from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese (1544) Battista Agnese (c. 1500 – 1564) was a cartographer from the Republic of Genoa, who worked in the Venetian Republic.
Also recorded as Battista Giovanni Agnese
Battista Agnese
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- Born
- 1500 · Genoa.
- Died
- 1564
- Occupation
- cartographer
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Worldmap from the Portolan Atlas by Battista Agnese (1544) Battista Agnese (c. 1500 – 1564) was a cartographer from the Republic of Genoa, who worked in the Venetian Republic.
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In 1525, he prepared an early map of Muscovy that was based on the geographical data, narrated to Paolo Giovio by the Russian ambassador Dmitry Gerasimov. His workshop produced at least 71 manuscript atlases of sea charts between 1534 and 1564, more cheaply than Dieppe maps but still considered of fine craftsmanship. The charts normally included latitude but not longitude, along with various decorative features. One of Agnese's best-known works is an atlas of the world commissioned by Charles V for his son, Philip II. Apparently produced around 1542, it depicts Baja California correctly as a peninsula (60 years later cartographers started to show California as an island). Agnese liked to incorporate the new geographical discoveries in his maps. For example, he included in his world map the route of the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan, and the route to Peru via the Isthmus of Panama, where a lot of the Spanish gold was found. The King-Hamy map held at the Huntington Library was once thought to date to c. 1502. More recent analysis has shown it to be a map by Agnese, produced in c. 1552. It appears to be a historical map designed by Agnese to show the image of the world in the early stages of the European expansion.
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Nautical atlas of Battista Agnese (BSB Cod. Icon. Recorded as cartographer.
Portolan-Atlas, Handschrift, Pergament, 17 Bl., 19 x 13 cm, Venedig 1543 (Werkstatt Battista Agnese).
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1500
Battista Agnese born at Genoa.
1552
Atlas Portulano - Battista Agnese (1552) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
1564
Battista Agnese died.
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- Getty Union List of Artist Names 500048088, Battista, Agnese.
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