Giorgio Sideri
Illustration — Callapoda da Candia's map of his native island (1562) Giorgio Sideri called Callapoda (fl. 1537–1565) was a 16th-century cartographer, born in Candia (Crete), who worked in Venice, where map-making skills were essential to the mercantile economy and to protection and control of the far-flung Venetian thalassocracy. Four of his navigational charts, and five hydrographical atlases, often in ink and watercolour on parchment are known; they bear dates ranging from 1537 to 1565, and several are dedicated to Venetian nobles.
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Giorgio Sideri
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Illustration — Callapoda da Candia's map of his native island (1562) Giorgio Sideri called Callapoda (fl. 1537–1565) was a 16th-century cartographer, born in Candia (Crete), who worked in Venice, where map-making skills were essential to the mercantile economy and to protection and control of the far-flung Venetian thalassocracy. Four of his navigational charts, and five hydrographical atlases, often in ink and watercolour on parchment are known; they bear dates ranging from 1537 to 1565, and several are dedicated to Venetian nobles.
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Sideri Callapoda came briefly into the news when his copy of a previously unknown fifteenth-century portolan chart by Fra Mauro was sold at auction in Milan, October 1984, at a price of 900 million Italian liras. It was signed in a cartouche Giorgi Callapoda a Candia faciebat, and dated 1541; the coat-of-arms in the map shows that it was made for the Venetian commander of galleys Francesco Zeno the elder, a member of the noble Venetian family of Zeno.
Work by Giorgio Sideri is recorded in the collections of Het Scheepvaartmuseum.
Carte de la Mer Méditerranée, de la Mer Noire, de la Mer Rouge et de l'Océan Atlantique nord-est. Georgio Sideri dicto Calapoda Cretensis fecit nel anno Domini 1565 die... Iugai
Carte_de_la_Mer_Méditerranée,_de_la_Mer_Noire,_de_la_Mer_Rouge_et_de_l'Océan_Atlantique_nord-est._1565.jpg: Giorgio Sideri derivative work: geagea · This file was derived from: Carte de la Mer Méditerranée, de la Mer Noire, de la Mer Rouge et de l'Océan Atlantique nord-est. 1565.jpg
Carte de la Mer Méditerranée, de la Mer Noire, de la Mer Rouge et de l'Océan Atlantique nord-est. Georgio Sideri dicto Calapoda Cretensis fecit nel anno Domini 1565 die... Iugai
Carte_de_la_Mer_Méditerranée,_de_la_Mer_Noire,_de_la_Mer_Rouge_et_de_l'Océan_Atlantique_nord-est._1565.jpg: Giorgio Sideri derivative work: geagea · This file was derived from: Carte de la Mer Méditerranée, de la Mer Noire, de la Mer Rouge et de l'Océan Atlantique nord-est. 1565.jpg
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- 1.Antonio Ratti, "A Lost Map of Fra Mauro Found in a Sixteenth Century Copy" Imago Mundi 40 (1988), pp. 77-85.
- 2.Ratti 1988:77-85.
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