Cartographic artists

Some cartographers were famous and some others remained unknown, but they were unquestionably all artists, as evidenced by the 1550 map of Paris, by Truschet and Hoyau with its ocher and red houses, or Cassini’s maps, for example.

Let’s discover these 16-18th centuries’ artist cartographers and the maps that have survived.

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Carta Marina 1516 : A New Approach to Mapmaking

"For his 1516 "Carta Marina" world map, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller completely changed his [...]

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Marquis de Lafayette’s Cartographer

Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy, the Marquis de Lafayette’s cartographer, produced gorgeous watercolor maps of the [...]

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An Exhibit Explores Art in the Margins of Maps

This exhibition presents the artistic elements of some fifty maps from the 13th to the [...]

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