File:View of Amsterdam.JPG

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Oldest surviving map of Amsterdam, 1538, looking south (Anthonisz 1538, Amsterdam Museum)

Summary

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Cornelis Anthonisz.: Bird’s-eye View of Amsterdam  wikidata:Q17558353 reasonator:Q17558353
Artist
Cornelis Anthonisz.  (circa 1505
date QS:P,+1505–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–1553)  wikidata:Q2761474
 
Cornelis Anthonisz.
Alternative names
Cornelis Anthoniszoon, Cornelis Anthonisz. Teunissen, Cornelis Anthonisz. Teunisz., Cornelis Anthonisz. Theunissen, Cornelis Anthonisz. Thonisz.
Description Dutch painter, cartographer, engraver and drawer
Date of birth/death circa 1505
date QS:P,+1505-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q2761474
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image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Bird's-eye view of Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Bird's-eye view of Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Bird's-eye view of Amsterdam Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"Vista dall'alto di Amsterdam"
label QS:Lfr,"Vue aérienne d'Amsterdam"
label QS:Lnl,"Gezicht op Amsterdam in vogelvlucht"
label QS:Lpt,"Vista panorâmica de Amesterdão"
label QS:Les,"Amsterdam a vista de pájaro"
label QS:Lsl,"pogled na Amsterdam s ptičje perspektive"
label QS:Lde,"Ansicht von Amsterdam aus der Vogelperspektive"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre cityscape Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Oldest surviving map of Amsterdam, showing the city's finished medieval walls, towers and gates. Like in most old maps of Amsterdam the city is shown from the IJ, so that the view is directed to the south rather than the north.
Date 1538 / from 1530 until 1539
date QS:P,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1539-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium oil on panel Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 116 cm (45.6 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 159 cm (62.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+116U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+159U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1820897
Accession number
SA 3009
Place of creation Amsterdam
Object history

1538: commissioned by the city of Amsterdam (?)

by 1652
date QS:P,+1652-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1652-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Old town hall, Amsterdam
by 1667
date QS:P,+1667-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1667-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Kamer van de Thesauriers Ordinaris, New town hall, Amsterdam
Unknown date: transferred to the Amsterdam Museum, Inventory number SA 3009, Amsterdam
Exhibition history Het Aanzien van Amsterdam. Panorama's, plattegronden en profielen uit de Gouden Eeuw, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 19 October 2007–16 January 2008, ISBN 978-90-6868-444-5, p. 86-87, cat. no.  3, with color image, as Gezicht in vogelvlucht op Amsterdam, 1538.
Inscriptions

Title top center:

AMSTERDAM

top right:

AMSTELVEEN

bottom center:

HET [-] TY

Date and monogram bottom left:

153[8] [-] CAT
Left and right of the compass rose
References
Source/Photographer www.amsterdammuseum.nl : Home : Info, het Amsterdam Museum [1]
Other versions
File:Gezicht op Amsterdam in vogelvlucht 1538 Cornelis Anthonisz.jpg
Higher resolution
File:Amsterdam in 1538 - bMA.jpg
Version from the Bureau Monumenten & Archeologie (bMA) van de gemeente Amsterdam
File:De Groote Kaart van Amsterdam in 1544 (The Big Map of Amsterdam in 1544) by Cornelis Anthonisz.jpg
woodcut print 1544 after this painting
File:Braun Amsterdam UBHD.jpg
Version by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg


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current12:50, 11 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 12:50, 11 April 20233,341 × 2,431 (3.18 MB)Vincent Steenberg (talk | contribs)rotated 0.5° AC, cropped
19:34, 6 April 2023Thumbnail for version as of 19:34, 6 April 20233,484 × 2,518 (9.62 MB)Artanisen (talk | contribs)Higher quality - https://hart.amsterdam/nl/collectie/object/amcollect/38011
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