Collection: Engass Collection
Name: Sevilla Hispalis.
Barcode:
Image Number:
Creator:
Printmaker:
Title Translation:
Physical Description:
Publisher:
Publishing Location:
Notes: Map of Seville in Spain from: Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Vol. IV Dedication: "D. Nicolao Malepart amico veteri et congerroni hispalensi lepidissimo Georgius Houfnaglius amicitie monumetu." Views of various scenes and landmarks of the city Dedication: "D. Nicolao Malepart amico veteri et congerroni hispalensi lepidissimo Georgius Houfnaglius amicitie monumetu."
Date/Date Range Produced:
Date/Date Range Published:
Language:
Region Depicted:
Dimensions: 38 x 49 cm
Printing Process:
Printing Technique:
Material Type:
Historical Context: Joris (Georg) Hofnagel’s view of Seville, based on his drawings made in 1563–67, was published in the fourth (1593) volume of Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg’s great atlas of city views, the _Civitates Orbis Terrarum_. The view exaggerates the architectural symbol of the city, the Giralda (originally the minaret for the city’s great mosque before being repurposed after 1492 as the bell tower to the cathedral), in order to characterize both the city’s urban (built) and civic (communal) nature. The foreground staffage, based on a 1569 emblem by Hofnagel of the “patient cuckold,” depicts the mocking parade of a cuckold (wearing branches as antlers), his unfaithful wife behind (whipping her husband with a string of garlic), preceded by the procuress (smeared with honey to attract bees).
LC Call Number: G6664.S4 B7 1593
OCLC: 68570797
Accession Number: ENG-1593-3
Donor:
Permanent URL:
