Cities, Globes & the Heavens
Coronelli's Globe Gores
A globe, unpeeled and laid flat.
- Map
- Printed globe gores
- Mapmaker
- Vincenzo Coronelli
- Date
- c. 1690s
- Held by
- Venice
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
Vincenzo Coronelli, a Venetian friar, was the most celebrated globe-maker who ever lived — he built globes fifteen feet across for the Sun King himself. To make them, he engraved gores: the tapering almond-shaped segments that, cut out and pasted onto a sphere, become a globe. Laid flat, they are strangely beautiful — the round world peeled like an orange, geography and ornament running together down each curving strip. The Earth caught in the moment between a flat sheet and a sphere.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain map held by Venice — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag or textured laid stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- 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 and linen-backed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our maps cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the sea monsters, the tiny place-names, the burin lines — on stock made to outlive its owner.
