Braun/Hogenberg. Cities of the World - Reviews (2)
| "Wer alte Landkarten schätzt, der wird bei diesem Buch dahin schmelzen!"— Austro Classics, Kierling, Austria |
| "This wonderful book reproduces all 363 colour plates from the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, which the Cologne-born Catholic cleric and cartographer Georg Braun edited more than 40 years in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It contains bird’s-eye and map views of every major city in the old world. Teeming with incident, detail and colour, it offers a comprehensive survey of Early Modern urban life. More than 100 artists contributed to the project, but the chief among the was Antwerp master engraver Franz Hogenberg."— The Independent on Sunday, London, United Kingdom |
| "Es ist ein Prachtband geworden, über dessen englischsprachige Ausgabe schon The Times zu Recht schrieb, sie vermöge die Zeit der Renaissance besser lebendig werden zu lassen als jedes Geschichtsbuch."— Vier Viertel Kult, Braunschweig, Germany |
| "Parallel dazu ist dieses Buch aus dem Hause (wie könnte es anders sein) TASCHEN ein wertvoller Leitfaden für Städteplaner, Citymanager und andere Mitarbeiter, die meistens mit ihrem Job (Steigerung der innerstädtischen Attraktivität) deutlich überfordert sind."— Espresso, Esslingen, Germany |
| "Maps are the bread and butter of the urban experience. Whether you’re consulting you iPhone’s GPS to locate that exceptional tapas bar in Palma’s Santa Catalin or flicking through an A-Z to find a friend’s apartment in the Merchant City of Glasgow, studying the layout or streets is both indispensable and fascinating. Before A-Z atlases or Google Maps, before even the RAC spiral-bound number found under the glove boxes of every British car in the 1970s and 80’s, there was Braun and Hogenburg’s Cities of the World, a phenomenally thorough collection of town maps and the planets major cities. Produced in Cologne by theologian and publisher Georg Braun, and largely engraved by Franz Hogenburg in six volumes between 1572 and 1617, it featured 564 illustrations, maps and birds-eye views of cities such as London, Paris, Cairo, Jerusalem and Damascus. Now beautifully reprinted from a rare surviving copy in Frankfurt’s Histrorische Museum, the dizzying array of maps show not just how much our cities have expanded since the period, but how many of the basic layouts have stayed the same. The likes of London, Seville and Paris are all instantly recognizable, though the illustrations of toiling peasants, pious nuns and polite-looking gentlefolk in the fields outside of the city walls bear little relation to today’s overcrowded suburbs. While much of modern mapping is done electronically and thus forced to adapt to our towns’ constant changes, there’s something far more permanent about the map as a moment in time captured for good. You’ll find no interactivity or user recommendations in the engravings of Braun and Hogenburg. Instead, just the world–transforming glory of the city, the powerhouse of all civilization."— Umbrella Magazine, London, United Kingdom |
| "Que ferions-nous sans nos cartes routières, nos GPS et Google Earth aujourd’hui? Il y a 400 ans, nos ancêtres découvraient le monde à travers des cartes, véritables œuvres d’art. Edité entre 1572 et 1618, le Civitates Orbis Terrarum – dirigé par le théologien Georg Braun et illustré par le cartographe Franz Hogenberg – comprend 531 cartes, vues à vol d’oiseau et plans de toutes les grandes villes d’Europe, d’Asie, d’Afrique et d’Amérique Latine. Aujourd’hui, TASCHEN réédite intégralement les 363 planches de la collection Braun et Hogenberg. Les cartes sont impressionnantes de beauté mais on y apprend également un peu plus sur les coutumes, les scènes de cour ou autres détails topographiques qui aident à rendre compte de la situation géographique, commerciale et de l’importance politique des villes qu’ils illustrent. De Paris, Rome et Mexico, en passant par le Caire ou Jérusalem, voici un voyage exceptionnel."— Voyages Voyages, Bruxelles, Belgium |
| „Begeistert kann man sich auf Entdeckungstour begeben und nicht nur die minutiöse Wiedergabe von Straßen, Gebäuden und geographischer Lage der Städte bestaunen, sondern sich auch an den Details im Vordergrund erfreuen, etwa an den Trachten- und Handwerkerdarstellungen.”— www.damals.de, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany |
| "This handsome book reproduces all 363 of the magnificent hand-coloured engravings by Franz Hogenberg, encompassing perspective and bird’s eye views of over 400 cities. The reproductions are uniformly of exceptional quality."— The Society for Medieval Archaeology (University of Leicester), Leicester, United Kingdom |
| "Check out ye olde Google mappe: Now you can get a bird's eye view of major cities from the 16th Century. For the 16th century man trying to get around town it was as useful as Google Earth or a sat-nav. And if you prefer a map to technology you can now follow your ancestors' footsteps, thanks to a reprint of a four centuries old guide to the world's major cities. The reprinted book contains bird's eye view maps of every major European city at the time, as well as maps from cities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The maps are part of a complete reprint of the 363 colour plates designed by Franz Hogenberg and annotated by Geog Braun - both renowned geographers and cartographers. The tome was brought back to life using a preserved original set of the six volumes, belonging to the Historische Museum in Frankfurt. The reprint includes all the city plates as well as selected extracts from Braun's texts on the history and significance of each city...Each image is also accompanied by a detailed commentary of what was taking place in each of the cities during the period it was designed…"— Daily Mail Online, London, United Kingdom |
| "Today you need never get lost thanks to your trusty sat-nav and Google Earth. Four hundred years ago our ancestors had something more primitive…but prettier. Engraved in the 1500s and 1600s, the maps…were essential travel gear for their time. The coloured plates were published together as Civitates Orbis Terrarum – Cities of the World in Latin – by German scholars Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg. Some of today’s sights are recognisable from centuries ago, such as the Tower of London in the east of the capital. Now the book – which included drawings of locals – has been republished with an English title but still with the gorgeous original illustrations."— The Sun, London, United Kingdom |
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