2025: Special Issue "Napoli dalle colline: città e campagna, cultura e natura nella veduta di Jan van Stinemolen (1582)"
Articles 0335-0341 Guest-edited by Tanja Michalsky and Adrian Bremenkamp In 1582, the Dutch draughtsman Jan van Stinemolen completed a monumental panorama of Naples (now in the Albertina, Vienna). Executed in ink on paper, this work presents not the conventional view of the city from the Gulf, but rather from the mainland. The contributions assembled in this issue offer new insights into this well-known work and underscore its distinctive qualities, not least through the application of innovative analytical tools. They are the result of a collaborative research project involving digitized maps annotated at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History. Digital annotation proved fundamental to the approach adopted here, which led to an analysis of the drawing's conception that showed this work to be much more than a snapshot of Naples in 1582.
