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Last Name Agnese

Given Name Battista Giovanni

alt. Names B. G. A.;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1514 in the Republic of Genoa

Year died 1556

Place of death in the Venetian Republic.

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education

Country of Activity Italy

Worked for early map of Muscovy (1525) ; Portolan Atlas (c. 1540) ; portolan maps (c. 1550) ;

Patronage Charles V & his son, Philip II. ;

Collaborators

Techniques maritime and geographic drawing and copperplate engraving ; cartographical map-making ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://arttattler.com/archiverenaissancevenice.html ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1544_Battista_Agnese_Worldmap.jpg

Archival sources Portulan-Atlas München, Universitätsbibliothek, Cim. 18 ; http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlagn.html

Published sources Tamara P. Woronowa / Voronova: Der Portolan-Atlas des Battista Agnese von 1546 aus der Russischen Nationalbibliothek Sankt Petersburg (Graz 1993); Uta Lindgren: B.A. Portulan Atlas München Universitätsbibliothek Cim 18 (color microfiche ed.). Untersuchungen zu Problemen der mittelalterlichen Seekartographie und Beschreibung der Portulankarten (Munich 1993); John Blake: Vermessung der Meere, 2007: 24, 58ff., 70f., 78, 127; Natur & Kunst. Handschriften & Alben aus der Ambraser Sammlung Erzherzog Ferdinands II (Vienna 1995): 62-63;

other A. had the nickname: sone of the daughter of Tizian or Tintoretto; His workshop produced at least 71 manuscript atlases of sea charts betw. 1534 - 1564 ;

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