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Manuscript Bird's Eye View of Rhodes, Greece, Late 17th
Manuscript Bird's Eye View of Rhodes, Greece, Late 17th
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[Europe, Greece]
Bird's Eye View of the Island of Rhodes.
Pen and brown ink on paper.
C. Late 17th Century.
10 1/8" x 15 3/8" sheet.

A Lovely View of the Island of Rhodes.

Rhodes was an important sea harbor in the Mediterranean during this time being located in the Aegean Sea between Europe, Africa and the Middle East. in 1309 the Knights Hospitallers (also known as the Knights of Rhodes), a religious and military Holy Order, left Italy after persecution. They captured and established their headquarters on Rhodes and remained on the Island for the next two centuries. Rhodes held out as a stronghold against the Ottomans in the 15th century, but eventually fell to a large army of Suleiman the Magnificent in December 1522, long after the rest of the Byzantine Empire had been lost. It is during this time of the Ottoman control that this view was drawn.

Very similar views Rhodes are shown in Cornelis Le Brun's Voyages...par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales (1700) & Blaeu's Novum Italiae theatrum...Tomus Tertius contienens Regna Neaplos et Siciliae (1724).
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Manuscript Bird's Eye View of Rhodes, Greece, Late 17th

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