Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio ex peritissimorum totius orbis gaeographorum operibus desumta
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- Created Date
- 1590
- Description
Relief shown pictorially. Arnoldus, & Henricius Florentij à Langren fratres sculpserunt. Includes illustrations and 2 ancillary maps of the night sky.
Jan Baptista Vrients’s world map depicts both hemispheres bordered by allegorical illustrations of Europe, Asia, Africa and America and two ancillary maps of the night sky. The illustrations primarily focus on the people, animals, and monuments attributed to each continent, but the corner depicting America includes a group of cannibals butchering and cooking another person, who’s head stares up at viewers from the ground. Vrients’s world map was one of the first to use heavily stylized and decorative border illustrations, which became the standard for world maps for the next century. The map is based on Plancius's 1594 world map, which has a fairly accurate representation of Japan based on hard-to-find Spanish and Portuguese maps of the area. Plancius’s world map preceded Vrients’, but Vrient’s was a better engraved edition. Despite this, the Vrient map is rarer and was reproduced less often than the Plancius map it was based on. LPM.
Grayscale
1:60,000,000
- Creator
Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Collection
- American Geographical Society Library - Maps
American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection - Publisher
- Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612
- Type
- image
- Language
- Italian
- Rights
- https://uwm.edu/libraries/digital-collections/copyright-digcoll/
- Chicago citation style
- Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612. Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio ex peritissimorum totius orbis gaeographorum operibus desumta. 1590. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/2517. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612, (1590) Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio ex peritissimorum totius orbis gaeographorum operibus desumta. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/2517
- MLA citation style
- Vrients, Jan Baptista, 1552-1612. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agdm/id/2517>.