The Zodiac
Taurus, the Bull
Zeus in disguise, carrying off Europa.
- Chart
- The constellation Taurus
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1655 edition of 1603
- Held by
- David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and Wikimedia Commons
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
The Bull — the form Zeus took to carry the princess Europa across the sea. His face is marked by the Hyades and his fiery eye by red Aldebaran, and on his shoulder ride the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, the loveliest star cluster in the whole sky. (For those born about April 20 – May 20.)
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Taurus, the Bull printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and 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.
