Andrea Cellario

ANDREA CELLARIO (C. 1596- 1665).
"Harmonia Macrocosmica, seu Atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens".
Original printer: Joannen Janssonium. Amsterdam, 1761.
Facsimile printer: Coron Bei Kindle. Berlin, 2006.
Measurements: 52 x 32,5 x 4 cm.
In the words of the national library "Considered one of the most spectacular cosmographic atlases published in the second half of the seventeenth century, Cellarius brought together in it, the different models of conception of the Universe and everything related to the movement of the stars, thus materializing, in the form of cartography, all the ideas raised throughout an intense period of astronomical activity. Harmonia Macrocosmica shows great beauty in its illustrations and many define it as the perfect combination of map, symbology and aesthetic quality, configured as the graphic representation of an ideological context around the Universe. The Baroque imposes a taste in which the engravers take so much care of the perfection of the mythological figures that they leave the stars in the background. Aesthetics prevails over what is useful."