A ilhae Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da Indiae Partes Orientais que estaen 15 Graos da Banda donorte

Title

A ilhae Cidade de Goa Metropolitana da Indiae Partes Orientais que estaen 15 Graos da Banda donorte

Description

Detaied city map of ancient Goa, now Velha-Goa at the river Mandovi, India. With decorative cartouche, coat of arms, windrose and off shore ships.

ca. 1585

Artist

Bry, de (1528-1598)

Theodorus de Bry (1528-1598) Frankfurt a.M. Around 1570, Theodorus de Bry, a Protestant, fled religious persecution south to Strasbourg, along the west bank of the Rhine. In 1577, he moved to Antwerp in the Duchy of Brabant, which was part of the Spanish Netherlands or Southern Netherlands and Low Countries of that time (16th Century), where he further developed and used his skills as a copper engraver. Between 1585 and 1588 he lived in London, where he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt and began to collect stories and illustrations of various European explorations, most notably from Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues. Depiction of Spanish atrocities in the New World, as recounted by Bartolome de las Casas in Narratio Regionum indicarum per Hispanos Quosdam devastatarum verissima. In 1588, Theodorus and his family moved permanently to Frankfurt-am-Main, where he became citizen and began to plan his first publications. The most famous one is known as Les Grands Voyages, i.e., The Great Travels, or The Discovery of America. He also published the largely identical India Orientalis-series, as well as many other illustrated works on a wide range of subjects. His books were published in Latin, and were also translated into German, English and French to reach a wider reading public. The two collections of travelogues published by Theodor de Bry in Frankfurt are among the most important of the early modern period and established his reputation for posterity: He created The Arrival of Columbus in the New World in 1594. The West Indian Voyages (ed. 1590-1618) chronicled the discovery and conquest of the Americas by Europeans, while the East Indian Voyages followed the rise of Holland as a trading power in Asia around 1600. Both series appeared in German and Latin, were intended for a European audience, and were richly illustrated with copper engravings. Theodor de Bry was only able to publish six parts of his complete works. After his death, his sons Johann Theodor and Johann Israel and then Johann Theodor's son-in-law Matthäus Merian continued the work until 1634. In the end, it contained 25 parts and over 1500 copper engravings. The brothers were succeeded as engravers and publishers by Sebastian Furck.

Historical Description

Goa's attested history dates back to the 3rd century BC, when local rulers, including the Bhojas residing in Chandrapura in southern Goa, were subject to the Maurya Empire. By this time, it was also known to the Greeks. The Greek geographer Ptolemy described the coastal region of today's Goa in the 2nd century A.D. under the name Nelkinda. In 1498, the Portuguese under Vasco da Gama had landed for the first time on the Indian coast near Calicut. They quickly understood how to exploit the hostilities of the Indian regional empires in their favor. Afonso de Albuquerque formed an alliance with Vijayanagar against Bijapur. In 1510, with the support of Vijayanagar's fleet, he conquered the area around the present-day cities of Panaji and Velha Goa. From then on, Goa's fate was determined almost continuously by the Portuguese for about 450 years. n the 16th century, Portuguese merchant fleets coming from Lisbon arrived in Goa almost every year. In 1543, Portugal wrested the territories of Bardez in the north and Salcete further south on the coast from the Adil Shahi of Bijapur. It also gained bases on the Malabar coast, Malacca, Ceylon, and Macau. At the height of Portuguese power in the 16th century, Velha Goa became the thriving city known as Goa Dourada. The decline of Portugal as a colonial power began in 1580 with the extinction of the Avis royal house and the subsequent personal union with Spain (until 1640). The proclamation of the Republic in Portugal on October 5, 1910, resulted in religious freedom for Goa. For the first time since the beginning of European rule, Hindus were now allowed to practice their religion freely. Even though the first republic in Portugal remained unstable and was overthrown again in 1926, the call for freedom awoke in Goa and resistance to the colonial rulers began to stir, following the example of the freedom movement in British India.