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Line 1: {{short description\|Portuguese cartographer}} {{other people\|João Teixeira}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=~~August~~July ~~2011~~2023}}▼ [[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~~'''João Teixeira Albernaz I''' also referred to as '''João Teixeira Albernaz, the Elder''' (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>▼ ~~'''João Teixeira Albernaz I''' also referred to as '''João Teixeira Albernaz, the Elder'''~~ ▲(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== Line 12 ⟶ 14: ==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 -– a copy of the codex titled ''"Rezão do Estado do Brasil"''. According to [[Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen]] and Helio Vianna, only the charts of this codex are by João Teixeira. 1621 -– Chart of the Strait of S. Vicente and Strait of Magellan, with his brother Pedro Teixeira de Albernaz c. 1626 -– "Livro que dá Rezão do Estado do Brasil", containing twenty-two chats, being a larger copy of the earlier 1616 1630 -– ''Atlas Taboas geraes de toda a navegação, divididas e emendadas por Dom Ieronimo de Attayde com todos os portos principaes das conquistas de Portugal delineadas por Ioão Teixeira cosmographo de Sua Magestade, anno de 1630'', manuscript in the [[Library of Congress]].<ref name=LC>{{cite web\|last=Congress\|first=Library\|title=Taboas geraes de toda a navegação / divididas e emendadas por Dom Ieronimo de Attayde com todos os portos principaes das conquistas de Portugal delineadas por Ioão Teixeira cosmographo de Sua Magestade, anno de 1630.\|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3200m+gct00052%29%29\|work=LC Luso-Hispanic World, 8\|publisher=Library of Congress\|accessdate=21 August 2011}}</ref> The first map, a world map summarizing the geographic knowledge at the time, presents a controversial [[Treaty of Tordesillas\|Tordesillas line]] shifted to the west, incorporating the mouth of the [[Rio de la Plata]] and northeastern North America under Portuguese rule.<ref name=LC1>{{cite web\|last=Congress\|first=Library\|title=Portuguese View of the World at the Beginning of the 17th Century\|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/portam/view.html\|work=Hispanic Division: Back to Portuguese Role in Exploring and Mapping the New World\|publisher=Library of Congress\|accessdate=21 August 2011}}</ref> [[File:Portuguese map of Asia, 1630.jpg\|thumb\|400px\|''Taboas geraes de toda a navegação'' Asia map, João Teixeira Albernaz, 1630]] 1631 -– Atlas of the State of Brazil, available in 1960 in the Map Collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rio de Janeiro. Covers thirty-six charts displaying frames, legend and shields or grantees of the Crown, are not met. Have been sent by organizing D. Jerónimo de Athayde, the donee Captaincy of Ilhéus. Contains several elements illuminating on the sugar industry, as well as representing the estuaries of the Rio de la Plata and the Amazon River, showing the patterns of demarcation between Spain and Portugal; 1640 -– Atlas of Brazil, composed of thirty-two letters on paper, that there are seven copies, of which the Historical Archives of the Ministry of Finance, Brazil. Has the particularity of each letter is preceded by a sheet with explanatory text. Codex exists in Torre do Tombo (Description of the land around the sea of St. Cross, commonly called Brazil, by John Teixeira, cosmographer of His Majesty the year 1640) is currently editing a full-color facsimile, showing thirty and letters, the first representing the territory of Brazil and the rest of its coast, with details of the final course of rivers, islands, ports and fortifications. 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== ~~{{Commons category\|Maps by João Teixeira de Albernaz I}}~~ {{reflist}} Line 35 ⟶ 37: 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}}. ~~==External links==~~ *[https://web.archive.org/web/20061026205815/http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/navegaport/b00.html A família Teixeira Albernaz] (Portuguese) ▲{{Use dmy dates\|date=August 2011}} {{Authority control}} <!--LCCN authority record number for this person; dates in the heading are not consistent with latest research; but in the interest of at least providing the information; I have "decloaked" the link (FS7)--> {{DEFAULTSORT:Albernaz, Joao Teixeira, I}} ~~[[Category:Portuguese cartographers]]~~ [[Category:People from Lisbon]] [[Category:16th-century Portuguese ~~people~~scientists]] [[Category:17th-century Portuguese ~~people~~cartographers]] ~~[[Category:17th-century cartographers]]~~ [[Category:16th-century births]] [[Category:1662 deaths]]