- Archive
- Collection of Fredrika and Paul Jacobs
- Overall dimensions
- 67 x 86 cm
- Author
- Joachim von Sandrart; after Giovanni Battista Falda
- Medium
- Etching and engraving
- Language of document
- Latin, German
- Places
- Altemps Palace at Monte Cavallo; Borgo di Sant'Agata; Capitoline Hill (Campidoglio); Church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini; Church of San Giuseppe dei Falegnami; Church of San Lorenzo ai Monti; Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina; Church of San Luca; Church of San Luigi dei Francesci; Church of San Nicola dei Lorenesi; Church of San Nicola in Carcere; Church of San Pietro in Carcere; Church of Sant'Agata dei Goti; Church of Sant'Angelo in Pescheria; Church of Sant'Atanasio dei Greci; Church of Santa Maria del Popolo; Church of Santa Maria dell'Orto; Church of Santa Maria di Loreto; Church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli; Church of Santa Maria Maggiore; Church of Santa Maria Rotonda (Pantheon); Church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva; Church of Santa Martina; Church of Santi Luca e Martina; Crescenzi Palace; Farnese Palace; Hospital of Santo Spirito; Monti (Rione); Oratory of Sant'Orsola della Pietà; Piazza Colonna; Piazza della Minerva; Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina; Piazza Navona; Piazza Sforza Capo le Case; Porta Maggiore (new place); Roman Forum (Campo Vaccino); Roman Seminary; Savelli Palace; Trinita dei Monti; Vatican (Apostolic) Palace; Via Frattina
- Summary
- Comprising two sheets, this map is titled in full Recentis Romae ichnographia et hypsographia sive planta et facies ad magnificentiam qua prioribus annis urbs ipsa directa exculta et decorata est. Like Jan van Vianen's map, this view of Rome is based on Falda's map of 1676. This digital manipulation gathers both plates, printed on separate sheets, in one image. The term "ichnographic" refers to maps on which all buildings and features appear perfectly perpendicular from a single, aerial viewpoint; "hypsographic," by contrast, concerns topographical relief as represented on a map.