ITALY - FLORENCE - RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL PANORAMIC VIEW of FLORENCE - "FLORENTIA", with the Arno in the foreground on the left, the cathedral and the Palazzo Pubblico in the center, a group of fortified buildings with the Medici coat of arms flying above on the extreme left, and the church of San Miniato al Monte in the distance on the right. c.1650Panorama in 4 plates (of which 3 planchets), etching and burin after Claes Janz VISSCHER (1587-1652). Proofs on laid paper. Watermark: Fleur de lys in a crowned shield. Text in Latin in a cartouche at the bottom right of the 4th leaf: "Florentia / olim fluentia Super, Arno flumine posita inter Hetruris urbes precipuae, Ingens, Opibus, Situs amaenitate [...]. A very rare copy is kept in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the British Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. Extraordinary panorama from the view engraved by Visscher after the one published by Hieronymus Cock in 1557, and falsely attributed to Antonio TEMPESTA. According to Leuschner, this work would have been engraved by a French engraver working in Paris in the second half of the 17th century (source British Museum). 42 x 227 cm approximately. Condition A (Cut to the subject at the top for the 1st leaf, small margins for the other leaves, beautiful impression).
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ITALY - FLORENCE - RARE AND EXCEPTIONAL PANORAMIC VIEW of FLORENCE - "FLORENTIA", with the Arno in the foreground on the left, the cathedral and the Palazzo Pubblico in the center, a group of fortified buildings with the Medici coat of arms flying above on the extreme left, and the church of San Miniato al Monte in the distance on the right. c.1650Panorama in 4 plates (of which 3 planchets), etching and burin after Claes Janz VISSCHER (1587-1652). Proofs on laid paper. Watermark: Fleur de lys in a crowned shield. Text in Latin in a cartouche at the bottom right of the 4th leaf: "Florentia / olim fluentia Super, Arno flumine posita inter Hetruris urbes precipuae, Ingens, Opibus, Situs amaenitate [...]. A very rare copy is kept in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the British Museum and the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence. Extraordinary panorama from the view engraved by Visscher after the one published by Hieronymus Cock in 1557, and falsely attributed to Antonio TEMPESTA. According to Leuschner, this work would have been engraved by a French engraver working in Paris in the second half of the 17th century (source British Museum). 42 x 227 cm approximately. Condition A (Cut to the subject at the top for the 1st leaf, small margins for the other leaves, beautiful impression).