The Northern Celestial Hemisphere

The northern sky, from the first star charts printed in Europe.

Chart: Imagines coeli
Astronomer: Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1515
Held by: National Gallery of Art, Washington · via Wikimedia Commons

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

A woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, Nuremberg, 1515: the northern half of the sky, from the first star charts printed in Europe. Dürer cut the figures. The companion sheet of the southern sky names the rest of the team on its face: Conrad Heinfogel for the design, Johann Stabius as publisher, and the Emperor Maximilian I as the holder of the privilege. The constellations stand as they would on a celestial globe. Every other atlas in this house, from Bayer in 1603 to Bode in 1801, came after these two sheets, and here is where printed astronomy in Europe begins.

See it on your wall

A window onto the heavens, in your home

The Northern Celestial Hemisphere printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.

The Northern Celestial Hemisphere framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by National Gallery of Art, Washington · via 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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