Bidspirit auction | VIAJE de Cosme de Médicis

VIAJE de Cosme de Médicis por España y Portugal (1668-1669): Laminas. Madrid. s.d. - VIAJE de Cosme de Médicis por España y Portugal (1668-1669): Laminas . Edicion y notas por Angel Sanchez Rivero. Madrid: Sucessores de Rivadeneyra, s.d. Atlas com LXXI gravuras: il.; 500x640 mm. This edition of the atlas is of exceptional importance for the iconographic knowledge of Iberian cities in the 17th century. The Relazione ufficiale del viaggio di Cosimo III dei Medici , written by Lorenzo Magalotti, and the watercolors by Pier Maria Baldi that illustrate it, remained manuscript and unpublished in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence since its creation, being published here for the first time in 1933, in an edition with notes by Ángel Sánchez Rivero and Ángela Mariutti de Sánchez Rivero. The journey took place between September 1668 and March 1669: Cosimo de' Medici (1642-1723), heir to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, departed from Livorno accompanied by a retinue of thirty-nine people with the purpose of traveling through Spain, Portugal, England, and France. The Iberian route, beginning in Cadaqués, crossed Zaragoza, Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Córdoba, Seville, Badajoz, Lisbon, Porto, and Santiago de Compostela, ending in A Coruña. Shortly after his return, Ferdinand II died, and Cosimo succeeded him as the VI Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held for fifty-three years until his death in 1723. Pier Maria Baldi (1630-1686), a Florentine painter and architect who was part of the entourage, was the author of the 129 watercolors that document the places visited – panoramic views of such rigor and detail that they make this collection one of the most remarkable visual documents of the 17th-century Iberian Peninsula. Each of the LXXI plates of the atlas, printed in black and white phototype, reproduces two of the original watercolors. This copy corresponds only to the volume of plates. A separate volume of text containing the study on the life of Cosimo de' Medici and the Italian transcription of the travel manuscript, which is absent here, was published. Rare and highly sought after. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate