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Antwerp | 14/05/2009 - 19/07/2009 In the wake of Columbus. Antwerp books and prints around the world

Exhibition illustrating the major influence and interaction the Officina Plantiniana and other printing firms in Antwerp had on book printing and illustration in the overseas regions up to the end of the 18th century. For several centuries they exported a good part of their production to the New World and to other Spanish and Portuguese dominions overseas. Amongst the objects on show is a selection of the first prints of exotic fauna and flora ever seen by West-Europeans, maps of Latin America drawn by the colonists at the beginning of the 1700s, all selected from collections of Portuguese and Spanish universities and libraries the Plantin-Moretus Museum & Print Room collections. From the 16th to the 18th century, books and prints figured as the most important source of information. Knowledge spread across the New World and other dominions of the Spanish and Portuguese crown. Plantin-Moretus and other Antwerp printing houses played a significant part in th!
is process.

Category:	Exhibitions
Start:	14/05/2009
End:	19/07/2009
Location:	Antwerp, Museum Plantin-Moretus / Prentenkabinet
Phone:	32-3-221 14 50
Website:	http://www.museumplantinmoretus.be

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