File:Gezicht op Amsterdam in vogelvlucht 1538 Cornelis Anthonisz.jpg
Size of this preview: 800 × 582 pixels. Other resolutions: 320 × 233 pixels | 640 × 465 pixels | 1,024 × 745 pixels | 1,280 × 931 pixels | 2,560 × 1,861 pixels | 6,692 × 4,866 pixels.
Original file (6,692 × 4,866 pixels, file size: 12.73 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
 | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
Cornelis Anthonisz.: Bird’s-eye View of Amsterdam
  |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist |
|
 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Author |
Cornelis Anthonisz. (1499-1553) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Title |
Bird's-eye view of Amsterdam  |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
cityscape |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
The oldest surviving map (painting) of Amsterdam dated 1538. It shows the city's finished medieval walls, towers and gates. Like most old maps of Amsterdam, the city is shown from the IJ (towards south). |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1538 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
oil on panel |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 116 cm (45.6 in) ; width: 159 cm (62.5 in) |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accession number |
SA 3009 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of creation | Amsterdam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
1538: commissioned by the city of Amsterdam (?) by 1667: Kamer van de Thesauriers Ordinaris, New town hall, Amsterdam Unknown date: transferred to the Amsterdam Museum, Inventory number SA 3009, Amsterdam |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Het Aanzien van Amsterdam. Panorama's, plattegronden en profielen uit de Gouden Eeuw, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 19 October 2007–16 January 2008, ISBN 978-90-6868-444-5, p. 86-87, cat. no. 3, with color image, as Gezicht in vogelvlucht op Amsterdam, 1538. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions |
Title top center: AMSTERDAM
top right: AMSTELVEEN
bottom center: HET [-] TY
Date and monogram bottom left: 153[8] [-] CAT
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Amsterdam Museum - www.amsterdammuseum.nl : Home : Info, het Amsterdam Museum [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Other versions |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.jpg)
_by_Cornelis_Anthonisz.jpg)
Licensing
|
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. | ||||
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| current | 12:08, 15 September 2024 | | 6,692 × 4,866 (12.73 MB) | Artanisen | Cropped the border |
| 12:05, 15 September 2024 |  | 7,016 × 5,268 (13.28 MB) | Artanisen | Uploaded a work by Cornelis Anthonisz. (1499-1553) from Amsterdam Museum with UploadWizard |
File usage
The following 2 pages use this file:
Global file usage
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on nl.wikipedia.org
- Usage on www.wikidata.org
