The Firmament

Shown as delivered — a two-panel diptych

Print detail — every line holds at full size

The Constellations

Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores

The printed sheets that once wrapped the greatest globes.

Chart
Celestial globe gores
Astronomer
Vincenzo Coronelli
Date
c. 1693
Held by
Engraved Venice · Wikimedia Commons

Finish

Format

The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.

Paper, canvas and frames print from the faithful scan on a single sheet. Choose Faithful and Single to see them.

Size

$29.00

The story

Vincenzo Coronelli was the greatest globe-maker of the Baroque, cosmographer to the Republic of Venice, who built celestial globes as tall as a man. To cover them he engraved gores — long tapering sheets of stars, shaped to be pasted onto a sphere — and printed flat, they become strange and beautiful things: Hercules striding and Ophiuchus wrestling his serpent, stretched into the curving geometry of a globe unrolled. Almost nothing else in the catalog looks like them. They are the working craft behind the heavens made solid, the pattern from which whole worlds were once assembled.

See it on your wall

A window onto the heavens, in your home

Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores framed on the wall
Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores framed on the wall
Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores framed on the wall
Coronelli's Celestial Globe Gores framed on the wall

About this reproduction

  • A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Engraved Venice · Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
  • Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
  • Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
  • Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
  • If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.

Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.

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