Roma al tempo di Clemente VIII

Roma al tempo di Clemente VIII

The Plan of Rome by Antonio Tempesta, created by Antonio Tempesta in 1593, is an enormous map of the city that stretches across 12 separate plates. The map is drawn from an imaginary viewpoint located high above the ground on the west side of the city. This perspective has the effect of expanding the nearby landmarks such as the Vatican, while compressing the further away buildings and roads like the Colliseum. Several roads and buildings are labelled, as is the river. The drawing focuses on the city within the walls, leaving the land outside the walls blank except for the the Tiber. The map was widely reproduce by Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi, and its style of perspective was copied by later cartographers such as Giovanni Maggi.

Antonio Tempesta

Roma al tempo di Clemente VIII: La pianta di Roma di Antonio Tempesta del 1593 riprodotta da una copia vaticana del 1606. Vatican City, 1932.

Single Map

Tempesta, Antonio. Plan of the City of Rome. Place of Publication Not Identified: Published by Giovanni Domenico De Rossi, 1645.

1593

engraving

Special Collections, Carleton College, Northfield, MN

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Italian

City view

Roma

Woodward, David. The History of Cartography. Vol. 3. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.