Image: Avenio vulgo Avignon (Atlas van Loon)
Description: Title:Avenio Vulgo Avignon This plate is from the Atlas Van Loon, which contains two volumes of the French edition of the Willem Blaeu's Atlas Maior, covering France and Switzerland, from 1663. The drawing of the town is a copy of an earlier map in 8 panels dated 1618 in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Va 84 Tome 1 H 159061-8). This is not currently available from Gallica. The panels of the 1618 map are reproduced in the 1958 book Évocation du Vieil Avignon by Joseph Girard. The 1618 map gives the authors as Marcus Antonius Gandolfus (Marco Antonio Gandolfo) and Theodorus Hochstraie (Théodore Hoochstraten, an engraver from The Hague) (Girard 1958, pp. 76-77). A low quality image of the 1618 map is available online on page 10 in the document available here. For more information on the 1618 map see: Breton, Alain (1986) "Prix-fait de la gravure du plan de 1618", Annuaire de la Société des amis du Palais des papes et des monuments d'Avignon, pp. 63-64.
Title: Avenio vulgo Avignon (Atlas van Loon)
Credit: Atlas van Loon (Atlases from the Maritime Museum of the Scheepvaartmuseum)
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
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