A house of Provenance
THE FIRMAMENT
The heavens, as the old astronomers dreamed them — every star, god, and beast, drawn in gold. Printed large for your wall.
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skip the ascent → enter the gallery“For as long as we have looked up, we have seen ourselves up there.”
I · STATION · ALT 23° — THE ECLIPTIC
The Zodiac
The band of the ecliptic wheels into view — the twelve signs, drawn in gold as the old astronomers saw them.
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II · STATION · ALT 45° — THE FIGURES
The Constellations
The gold figures gather — the gods, beasts, and heroes of the sky.
Orion, the Hunterengraved 16th–18th c.
Ursa Major, the Great Bearengraved 16th–18th c.
Cygnus, the Swanengraved 16th–18th c.
III · STATION · ALT 60° — THE GREAT CHARTS
The Celestial Atlases
The masterpiece charts, whole — Cellarius’s gold-and-azure hemispheres, Bayer, Hevelius, Flamsteed.
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IV · STATION · ALT 75° — OTHER WORLDS
Sun, Moon & Planets
The first maps of other worlds — Galileo’s Moon, Cassini’s hidden Moon Maiden, the spotted face of the Sun.
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V · STATION · ALT 90° — THE ZENITH
The Systems of the World
How we imagined the machinery of heaven — Ptolemy’s, Copernicus’s, and Tycho’s cosmos, wheeling.
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What did the sky look like the night you were born?
The real star field for your moment — a made-to-order chart, drawn in gold.
$69.00
A made-to-order chart of the real star field for your moment, hand-rendered and printed to order. We’ll confirm the exact framing by email from paintedalways@gmail.com before it goes to press.
“We are the way for the cosmos to know itself — and to hang a little of it, in gold, on the wall.”
