The Southern Celestial Hemisphere

The southern sky of 1515, its makers named on its face.

Chart: Imagines coeli
Plate: Imagines Coeli Meridionales
Astronomer: Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1515
Held by: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · via Wikimedia Commons

Imagines Coeli Meridionales

Format

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

Size

$29.00

The story

Imagines coeli meridionales, the southern sky, a woodcut by Albrecht Dürer with letterpress text, Nuremberg, 1515. The sheet names its makers on its face: Dürer as printmaker, after a design by Conrad Heinfogel, published by Johann Stabius, dedicated by Stabius to Matthaeus Lang von Wellenburg, under a privilege from the Emperor Maximilian I. With its northern companion it is among the first star charts printed in Europe. The sheet measures 455 by 431 millimetres. In 1515 the southern half was the emptier one, its deepest stars still unknown to Europe, and the navigators who filled it had yet to sail.

See it on your wall

A window onto the heavens, in your home

The Southern 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 Southern Celestial Hemisphere framed on the wall

About this reproduction

A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · 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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