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A plan-relief is a scale model of a landscape and buildings produced for military usage, made to visualise building projects on fortifications or campaigns surrounding fortified locations.
The first examples seem to have been used by the Venetian Republic and more generally by the Italian city states of the Renaissance era. The wood turner Jakob Sandtner (fl. 1561-1579) produced plans-relief of many Bavarian towns, whilst in France Louis XIV’s war minister Louvois initiated a collection of plans-relief of French strongholds on a 1:600 scale in 1688. This collection included 144 examples according to Vauban’s 1697 inventory of it and was put on show at the palais des Tuileries. Vauban’s successors expanded the collection as and when operational necessity demanded, right up until 1870, when they were rendered obsolete by advances in the power of artillery.
An exhibition was set at The Grand Palais in Paris from the 18th january to 17th february. “La France en Relief”Uno Sole Minor:
Have you seen this exhibition? What did you think about it?
Le sultan d’Alger menace le roi Philippe IV d’Espagne et le roi Louis XIIICarte du littoral Atlantique et du détroit de GibraltarAugustin Roussin, Marseille, 1633.Manuscrit enluminé sur parchemin, 35 x 51,5 cmBnF, département des Manuscrits, Français 20122, f. 2v-3
This map belongs to a Mediterranean atlas created by an hydrograph from Marseilles. It holds the armory of Richelieu, surintendant de la Marine since 1626, who worked on strengthening the navy on Southern France coast. The different sovereigns (King of Spain, King of France, Sultan of Algiers) embody the major regional powers. The Arabic leaders are shown as a permanent theat to the Christian kingdoms.
The Carte de France was published by four generations of the Cassini family from 1750 to 1815. It consists of 182 sheets at the same scale, allowing the sheets to be joined together to form a physical map of about 39 feet high by 38 feet wide. It is rich both in historical cultural information and exquisite graphic art. The map was the first national survey completed systematically, relying on the latest science of its time.
A 1691 French map of the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, located in western Ukraine.
![[Mappemonde en deux hémisphères] / Ceste Carte Fut pourtraicte en toute perfection Tant de Latitude que / Longitude Par moy Guillaume Le Testu Pillotte Royal Natif de / La ville Françoise de grace… et fut achevé le 23e jour de May 1566
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Guillaume Le Testu, sometimes referred to as Guillaume Le Têtu (c. 1509–12 — April 29, 1573) was a French privateer, explorer and navigator. He was one of the foremost cartographers of his time and an author of the Dieppe maps. His maps were distinguished by their sophistication and detail; they influenced generations of cartographers, navigators and explorers.
Le Testu was successful as a privateer during the early years of the French Wars of Religion. In 1573, he and Sir Francis Drake attacked a Spanish mule train escorting gold and silver to Nombre de Dios on the Atlantic coast of Panama, and he was subsequently killed following his capture by the Spanish.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3af3cd408ba7746c88acdae3eed7fbcd/tumblr_mhvfw7ZFgg1r4iw2yo1_500.jpg)
[Mappemonde en deux hémisphères] / Ceste Carte Fut pourtraicte en toute perfection Tant de Latitude que / Longitude Par moy Guillaume Le Testu Pillotte Royal Natif de / La ville Françoise de grace… et fut achevé le 23e jour de May 1566
Guillaume Le Testu, sometimes referred to as Guillaume Le Têtu (c. 1509–12 — April 29, 1573) was a French privateer, explorer and navigator. He was one of the foremost cartographers of his time and an author of the Dieppe maps. His maps were distinguished by their sophistication and detail; they influenced generations of cartographers, navigators and explorers.
Le Testu was successful as a privateer during the early years of the French Wars of Religion. In 1573, he and Sir Francis Drake attacked a Spanish mule train escorting gold and silver to Nombre de Dios on the Atlantic coast of Panama, and he was subsequently killed following his capture by the Spanish.
Portulan de la portion de la côte du Brésil entre l’Amazone et le Rio San Francisco - Jacques de Vau de Claye
Jacques de Vau de Claye was a cartograph from the Renaissance. He worked with the cartography school of Dieppe. He’s known for his very detailed maps of Brazil’s coasts
Three details from Nouvelle Carte De La Sphere Pour Faire Connaître Les Divers Mouvemens Des Planetes by Henri Chatelain, c. 1720
C17th plan of Abbey of Marmoutier
Marmoutier Abbey, also known as the Abbey of Marmoutier (often Marmoutiers), was an early monastery outside Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France. In its later days it followed the Benedictine order as an influential monastery with many dependencies.
![[Carte des côtes de l’Amérique du nord, de l’Amérique centrale et d’une partie de l’Amérique du sud] / Ceste Carte A été Faicte Par Jacques de Vaulx Pilote entretenu Pour le Roy en la Maryne au havre, 1584
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[Carte des côtes de l’Amérique du nord, de l’Amérique centrale et d’une partie de l’Amérique du sud] / Ceste Carte A été Faicte Par Jacques de Vaulx Pilote entretenu Pour le Roy en la Maryne au havre, 1584
Plan du monastère de Port-Royal-des-Champs d’après une gravure de Magdeleine Hortemels
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, or Louise-Madeleine Hortemels, also called Magdeleine Horthemels (1686 – 2 October 1767), was a French engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin. She is also sometimes credited under her married name of Louise Madeleine Cochin or Madeleine Cochin.
Horthemels was active in Paris as an engraver for nearly fifty years and produced more than sixty signed copper plates.
Her first published work was a frontispiece for Alain-René Lesage’s novel Le Diable boiteux(fr) (1707), which she signed Magdeleine Horthemels fec. Her later work is signed variously Magd. Horthemels, L. Mag. Horthemels, M. Horthemels, Magd. Horthemels Sponsa C. Cochin, and Magdeleine Cochin.
It was long believed that Louise-Magdeleine and her sisters Marie-Nicole and Marie-Anne-Hyacinthe all signed work Marie Horthemels, but a careful study has shown that the signed work of the sisters can easily be distinguished. Nevertheless, the members of the family commonly worked together on a single composition.
Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels engraved paintings by Nicolas Poussin, Charles Le Brun, Antoine Coypel, Michel Corneille the Younger, Claude Vignon, and Nicolas Lancret,and produced illustrations for a history of the Hôtel des Invalides and for a history of the Languedoc, in collaboration with her husband Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder. She designed a series of twenty-three plates depicting the nuns of the abbey of Port-Royal and their everyday life. The abolition of the abbey had been ordered by a bull of Pope Clement XI in September 1708, the remaining nuns were forcibly removed in 1709, and most of the buildings were razed to the ground in 1710, on the orders of the Conseil du Roi of King Louis XIV.
Horthemels completed a great plate called Le feu d’artifice de la place de Navone, after Giovanni Pannini, which had been begun by her son Charles Nicolas Cochin. She also engraved portraits, such as a copper engraving of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, after an early eighteenth century painting by her brother-in-law Alexis Simon Belle.
In the early work of Horthemels as an engraver, there is a certain rigidity of line, while architectural detail is emphasized. However, her skill lay in engraving the work of others so that their genius was revealed and her own style was suppressed. Her hand was sure, and her work shows a delicacy and clarity of touch which were much admired in her own time.
