Pugna Nautica inter Melitenses, et Turcos, in Mari Mediteraneo / Treffen zwischen den Maltesern und Türcken in dem Mittellädischen Meer. Anno 1645.

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Article ID EUK4924

Title

Pugna Nautica inter Melitenses, et Turcos, in Mari Mediteraneo / Treffen zwischen den Maltesern und Türcken in dem Mittellädischen Meer. Anno 1645.

Description

Illustration shows a sea battle off Rhodes between the Maltese and the Turks in the 17th century. The warships are titled, for example, Capitain de Malte, S. Laurentz, S. Johan, Greek Ship, Turkish Ship, Victoria, etc.

Year

ca. 1707

Artist

Merian (1593-1650)

Matthäus Merian (1593 – 1650) , born in Basel, learned the art of copperplate engraving in Zurich and subsequently worked and studied in Strasbourg, Nancy, and Paris, before returning to Basel in 1615. The following year he moved to Frankfurt, Germany where he worked for the publisher Johann Theodor de Bry. He married his daughter, Maria Magdalena 1617. In 1620 they moved back to Basel, only to return three years later to Frankfurt, where Merian took over the publishing house of his father-in-law after de Bry's death in 1623. In 1626 he became a citizen of Frankfurt and could henceforth work as an independent publisher. He is the father of Maria Sibylla Merian, who later published her the famous and wellknown studies of flowers, insects and butterflies.

Historical Description

Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilisation, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, Western drama and the Olympic Games. From the eighth century B.C., the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states, known as poleis (singular polis), which spanned the entire Mediterranean region and the Black Sea. Philip of Macedon united most of the Greek mainland in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the ancient world, from the eastern Mediterranean to India. Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century B.C., becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, which adopted the Greek language and culture. The Greek Orthodox Church, which emerged in the first century A.D., helped shape modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox World. After falling under Ottoman dominion in the mid-15th century, Greece emerged as a modern nation state in 1830 following a war of independence.

Place of Publication Frankfurt on Main
Dimensions (cm)21 x 33,5 cm
ConditionPerfect condition
Coloringcolored
TechniqueCopper print

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