 His earliest documented work is his huge (1.345 x 2.818 metres, from six blocks) and impressive woodcut aerial view "Map of Venice", for which a privilege was granted to its publisher in 1500, recording that the work had taken three years.This clearly drew on the work of many surveyors, but was a spectacular feat nonetheless, and caused a considerable stir from the first.It was later updated by others to reflect major new building projects in a second state of the print.