The contribution aims to focus the attention on the consequences on the use of images and in particular on the cartographic ones deriving from the Protestant Reformation. Analysing the debate around images which originated during the sixteenth century from Luther’s revolution, the article tries to answer how much the Reformation contributed to change the main aspects of mapmaking in a more realistic and secularized way. Three main questions will be posed: how much did the Protestant Reformation contribute to the affirmation of the cartographic images, to the pushes towards realism and to reality? How much did the way of representing the world change, standing on the innovations promoted by the European Protestants? Did the Reformation have also consequences on the Counter-Reformation way of depicting maps? Starting from the main literature, which focused the attention on the effects of that debate about the artistic images, a parallelism with the use of new cartographic models will be proposed, wondering if the Reformation contributed to the modern way of mapmaking, overpassing the religious, metaphorical of the medieval models.

该贡献旨在将注意力集中在图像使用的后果上，尤其是新教改革带来的制图后果。通过对围绕路德革命起源于16世纪的图像的辩论进行分析，本文试图回答“改革”对以更现实和世俗的方式改变地图制作主要方面的贡献。将提出三个主要问题：新教改革对确认地图图像，对逼真主义和对现实的推动有多少贡献？站在欧洲新教徒倡导的创新之上，代表世界的方式发生了多少变化？改革是否对地图的反改革方式也有影响？从主要文献开始