de' Musi, Agostino
Agostino de' Musi or 'Veneziano'(c. 1490 - c. 1540) was an Italian engraver of the Renaissance. He was born in Venice, and trained as an artist. He lived and worked as well in Florence and Rome, where he would join the printmaking workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi. He worked there with success until the Sack of Rome in 1527. He returned to Venice following the Sack, where he is thought to have died after 1535. His pictorial work was more prolific and better known than his cartographic work, despite his having executed some superb maps, such as his influential and broadly copied 1535 depiction of Tunis and Goleta.
Earliest Acquirable Image of Tunis, Tunisia.
[Untitled plan of Tunis and fort of Goleta, Tunisia.]
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Sebastian Münster's woodcut view of Tunis, Tunisia, is the earliest acquirable printed image of that city based on contemporaneous information, resulting from Charles V's 1535 siege of the Tunisian port. (more details)