ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE: VIEW OF SPLIT

Inventory number 250

Original title: Spalato

Publishing year: 1598

Place of publishing and publisher: Venezia

Format: 10 x 17,5 cm

Technique: Copper engraving

This view shows the town of Split and its immediate surroundings up to Stobreč and the bay of Žrnovnica. The town is shown enclosed in its walls. The framework of the Diocletian’s palace can be discerned with some bigger palaces and the town’s cathedral contained in it. In the waterfront the port is shown with two quays. The author omitted the representation of Donja Varoš that already existed at that time. The mount Marjan is featured very schematically as two shaded molehills with one small church on top of each. On the western promontory the church of St. George is identified. In the inland area traces of the antique Salona can be seen. Rosaccio derived this his representation of Split from the 1571 Božo Bonifačić’s view made for Comocio’s isolario.

ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE

Giuseppe Rossacio (ca 1530-1620), Italian cosmographer who worked in Venice. His most noted works are “Teatro del Cielo e Terra Florence” of 1594, the 1604 edition of Ptolemy’s “Fashion of the Four Elements” and “Teatro del Cielo” of 1615. Of the greatest importance for the depiction of the Croatian lands is his isolario “Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli” comprising map images of all of the bigger islands and ports located along the navigable way leading from Venice to Constantinople, the work that from 1597 onwards went through several editions.