Anthonisz, Cornelis (sold)
Cornelis Anthonisz (c. 1505 - 1553) was a Dutch painter, engraver, and mapmaker. He was born in Amsterdam, the grandchild of painter Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, from whom he probably learned painting. In 1538 he was commissioned by the city fathers to paint the first complete map of Amsterdam, as a gift to Charles V. He would thereafter produce a number of woodcuts, including his 1544 view of Amsterdam. This was a wall map, printed to twelve woodblocks. While only seven examples of this plan are known to survive, it was copied in smaller format by Münster in 1550 and Braun and Hogenberg in 1572, thus sealing its authority as the best map of Amsterdam available in the sixteenth century. He also produced portraits of heads of state and allegorical prints. Two of his paintings survive that have been attributed to him.
First edition of the earliest printed map of Amsterdam available to the collector.
[Untitled Bird's Eye View of Amsterdam].
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This is Sebastian Münster's 1550 view / map of Amsterdam, the earliest acquirable printed map of that city. It was preceded only by the 1544 wall map of Cornelis Anthonisz, Münster's source for this view. Anthonisz's wall map - which survives in fewer than ten examples - represented the best (and only) firsthand depiction of Amsterdam of its time. Its depiction in 1550 by Münster and in 1572 by Braun and Hogenberg established as the dominant 16th century image f what would become the chief economic engine of the seventeenth century. (more details)