"Nobile Cita di Napole […] suo vero Ritratto" (Du Perac/Lafréry 1566)

The plan engraved by Étienne Du Perac and printed by Antoine Lafréry proved more successful than its predecessor (Theti 1560) because of its almost true-to-scale representation and not least because of its aesthetically attractive presentation. The view combines, in the manner of a 'bird's eye view', different projection forms for the surroundings and the actual body of the city, where the buildings are precisely recorded and depicted axonometrically. The legend is comparatively short, but therefore makes even clearer the selection of features that the map’s producers wished to accentuate.

1566
518 x 832 mm
2 plates
engraver: Étienne Du Perac
printer: Antoine Lafréry
6883 x 10467 pixels
markup: Luigi Coiro, Gianluca Forgione, Martin Raspe
source: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, shelfmark GE DD-655 (102RES)