The Celestial Globe-Southern Hemisphere
Albrecht Dürer
1515 · Woodcut · Drawings and Prints
This woodcut of the southern sky is based on maps of the stars drawn by an anonymous artist living in Nuremberg in 1503. Recalculated to reflect the stellar positions of 1515, Dürer's celestial maps were the first ever published and attest to the role that Nuremberg played as a center for printing, as well as for the manufacture of scientific instruments.
- Artist
- Albrecht Dürer
- Date
- 1515
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1951
