Boschini, Marco
1651

Rethymno in Crete, Greece

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Rettimo

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Rare profile view of the Cretan village of Rettimo (Rethimno), Crete in Greece . The town is shown as it then existed, a narrow peninsula with the port and its jetties jutting out to the East. The great Fortress of Rethymno is clearly visible high and well protected at the northern end of the peninsula. Galleys and sea serpents fill empty space in the sea.

By Marco Boschini (1613-1678) from Venice in 1651. Published in Boschini's atlas of 59 engraved views and city plans and 2 maps of Crete at a time when the island of Crete, then a Venetian territory, was under siege from Ottoman forces.

Boschini derived his engravings from the manuscript works of others including Angelo degli Oddi, Francesco Basilicata, and especially Georgio Corner. Although he never visited Crete, Boschini's unique contribution is that his atlas was the first published atlas to focus solely on Crete and it provided information about that embattled island to a thirsty public. (Porfyriou, Heleni. The Cartography of Crete in the First Half of the 17th Century: a Collective Work of a Generation of Engineers, Web; http://ine-notebooks.org/index.php/te/article/viewFile/109/165)

CREATOR: Boschini, Marco

PUBLICATION DATE: 1651

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Greece

BODY OF WATER: Mediterranean Sea

CONDITION: Very Good.  Very fine dark engraving on strong paper. Wide margins. Strong impression; dark ink. No issues.

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SIZE: 6 " x 8 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0

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