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{{short description|Portuguese cartographer}}
{{other people|João Teixeira}}
[[File:Planta da Restituição da BAHIA, por João Teixeira Albernaz.jpg|thumb|300px|Map showing the [[recapture of Bahia]] from the Dutch, ''Atlas of Brazil'' (1631) I. Teixeira Albernaz]]
▲(Lisbon, late 16th century{{spaced ndash}}c. 1662), to distinguish him from his grandson, was the most prolific [[Portugal|Portuguese]] [[cartographer]] of the seventeenth century. His works include nineteen [[atlases]], a total of two hundred and fifteen maps. He stands out for the variety of themes, which record the [[Age of Discovery|progress of maritime and land exploration]], particularly in the Portuguese [[colony of Brazil]]. João Teixeira Albernaz belonged to a prominent family of cartographers whose work extended from mid-sixteenth century until the late eighteenth century, including his father [[Luís Teixeira]], uncle Domingos Teixeira, brother [[Pedro Teixeira Albernaz]] and grandson João Teixeira Albernaz, the younger, as well as Estevão Teixeira.<ref name=IC>{{cite web|last=Camoes|first=Instituto|title=Família Albernaz|url=http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/navegaport/b00.html|work=Navegações Portuguesas|publisher=Instituto Camões|accessdate=21 August 2011}}</ref>
==Biography==
[[File:Belém do Pará em mapa de 1629 por Albernaz I.PNG|thumb|left|Detail of "Pequeno atlas do Maranhão e Grão-Pará" showing the city of [[Belém]], Brazil, 1629]]
João Teixeira Albernaz must have learned the craft from his father [[Luís Teixeira]], starting his own work in the seventeenth century. On 29 October 1602 he got his licence as master for "[[Nautical chart]]s, [[astrolabe]]s, [[compass needle]]s and [[cross-staff]]", having been examined by the royal chief-[[cosmographer]], [[João Baptista Lavanha]]. Three years later, in 1605, he was appointed [[cartographer]] for the [[Casa da Índia|Warehouse Guinea and India (Casa da Mina and India?)]], where he worked until the end of his life.
In the [[Archive of the Indies]] in Seville, there is a document recording his presence and also his brother, [[Pedro Teixeira]] in [[Madrid]] in order to design charts of ''Strait of St. Vincent'' and the [[Strait of Magellan]]. In 1622 presented a petition to the post of chief [[cosmographer]], but the post was passed over to Valentim de Sá. In the late seventeenth century, in an opinion issued by Manuel Pimentel about the 1642
==Works==
[[File:Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegacao.tif|right|thumb|400px|Teixeira Albernaz's 1630 "General Chart for All Navigation" ({{lang|pt|Taboas Geraes de Toda a Navegação}}), displaying both the [[Treaty of Tordesillas|Tordesillas]] and [[Treaty of Zaragoza|Zaragoza Meridians]]{{sfnp|Whincup|Campo López|2022|pp=38–39}} (click to enlarge)]]
His work is of great interest both for its breadth and variety, and for the record of the progress of discovery and Portuguese maritime and overland exploration, particularly with regard to [[Colonial Brazil|Brazil]]. His works amount to nineteen [[atlas]], grouped and loose charts, in a total of two hundred and fifteen charts. Those include:
*c. 1616
*1621
*c. 1626
*1630
[[File:Portuguese map of Asia, 1630.jpg|thumb|400px|''Taboas geraes de toda a navegação'' Asia map, João Teixeira Albernaz, 1630]]
*1631
*1640
*1643 – ''Atlas Universal'' (''Livro vniversal das navegasões feito em Lisboa por Ioão Teixeira Cosmographo de Sva Magestade, Anno 1643''), "Universal Atlas" with eight charts. Considered an exceptional artistic value, different from other Atlas of the author, because it presents essentially [[hydrography|hydrographic]] information.
==References==
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==Bibliography==
*CORTESÃO, Armando; MOTA, Avelino Teixeira da. ''Portugaliae monumenta cartographica (v. IV).'' Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1987. Reprodução fac-similar da edição de 1960.
*DIAS, Maria Helena (coord.). ''Contributos para a História da Cartografia militar portuguesa [CD-ROM].'' Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Geográficos [etc.], 2003. {{ISBN
*DIAS, Maria Helena; BOTELHO, Henrique Ferreira (coord.). ''Quatro séculos de imagens da Cartografia portuguesa = Four centuries of images from Portuguese Cartography (2ª ed.).'' Lisboa: Comissão Nacional de Geografia [etc.], 1999. {{ISBN
*MOTA, Avelino Teixeira da. ''Cartas Portuguesas Antigas na Colecção de Groote Schuur.'' Lisboa: Centro de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga/Junta de Investigações Científicas do Ultramar, 1977.
*VITERBO, Sousa. ''Trabalhos Náuticos dos Portugueses, Séculos XVI e XVII''. Lisboa: INCM, 1988.
* {{citation |last1=Whincup |first1=Paul |last2=Campo López |first2=Antonio |contribution-url=https://www.rswa.org.au/publications/journal/105/RSWA%20105%20p35-42%20Whincup%20and%20Campo%20Lopez.pdf |contribution=Origin of the Western Austrlian Land Boundary |title=Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia |issue=105 |pages=35–42 |date=2022 |location=Perth |publisher=Royal Society of Western Australia}}.
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