The Celestial Map- Northern Hemisphere

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SKU: TRG-PRINT-METM-358366 Category: Giclee Prints Tag: Albrecht Dürer Artist: Dürer, Albrecht

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The Celestial Map of the Northern Hemisphere by Albrecht Dürer turns the night sky into an intricate gathering of human and animal forms. Constellations fill the circular field, their figures arranged among small stars and lettering. Portraits in the corners frame the chart, connecting the imagined shapes of the heavens with the scholars who studied them.

Created in 1515, this woodcut draws on earlier celestial charts and a tradition that joins classical and Arabic astronomical knowledge. Its appeal lies in the meeting of scientific order and visual invention: the measured sky becomes a world of bodies, creatures and recognizable stories. Dürer gives the chart an ornamental richness while preserving the clear organization that makes its many details inviting to explore.