Old Florence...the engraved map by Flemish Hieronymus Cock
Video in Italian | One of the last acquisitions of the Uffizi Galleries
The Department of Prints and Drawings of the Uffizi is another worthy place that preserves an immense treasure made of paper, extremely fragile.
The last acquisition of the Department is a rare cartographic engraving from 1557 by Flemish Hieronymus Cock, which illustrates Florence before the construction of the Uffizi with its beautiful intact medieval walls and the facades of Santa Maria del Fiore and Santa Croce still unfinished.
All around a swarm of life: you can see wayfarers and men working in the fields, others busy at a construction site.
At the bottom of the sheet an inscription in Latin pays homage to Florence and the illustrious people born here. Florence.
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