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2122012105323734Code 477A Antique globe CassiniTerrestrial globe with 12 lunes and two polar caps engraved by copper plate on paper and applied on a plaster and papier machè support, hand-colored and placed on octagonal wooden pedestals. This globe was made according to knowledge of Giovanni Maria Cassini (Venice 1745 – Rome 1824), regular cleric of Padri Somaschi, an order proposed in Venice in 1525 and founded in Somasca, Lombardy, in 1532. It was updated according to the last discoveries in 1843 by the “calcografia camerale”, the publishing house of Pope. Very good condition. Cm 50x50 – inches 19.7x19.7.
Giovanni Maria Cassini was one of the best followers of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the famous architect, and began to work as cartographer in 1787. He made copper plates of his best work Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale (New Universal Geographic Atlas) between 1788 and 1791; in 1792 he started to insert in his atlas the lunes for terrestrial and celestial globe, that buyers had the possibility to customize and to mount on the favorite base.
Antique worls maps and old globes have a large public of lovers, that appreciate the historical value and beauty. Especially antique globes are item that many people love to collect.
Terrestrial and celestial antique globes, made during centuries, give us another confirmation that man has always wanted to know the world and to measure and represent it using all possible systems.
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