Nova Italie Delineatio di I. Hondius - 1638 Measures:Small - 55 x 64 cm The black and white plates

The black and white plates of the Divine Comedy are unanimously considered a perfect marriage between Gustave Doré's engraving skill and Dante Alighieri's extraordinary visual imagination

Leather-bound notebooks in our Signum bindery in the historic center of Florence with soft cover and unlined interior

Resin marble statuette representing Hope by Gustav Klimt

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Essendo realizzati a mano

Nova Italie Delineatio di I. Hondius - 1638 Measures:Small - 55 x 64 cm The black and white platesThe maps are made faithfully following the original techniques and materials: manual press, hand engraved plates and pure cotton paper. Mounting on canvas resumes a historical practice used to facilitate the conservation and transportability of cartographic representations. The aging, performed with exclusively vegetal substances, gives a lived in look without altering the integrity of the artifact. The eventual watercolor coloring adds a polychrome