Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
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Rather than showing Galileo at work, this engraving serves as the frontispiece to an 1821 volume of his memoirs and letters, and it was drawn after a work by the painter F. Benvenuti. The print appeared nearly two centuries after Galileo's death in 1642, when interest in his legacy was growing. By then his name was tied to the telescopic discoveries he announced in 1610 and to his 1633 condemnation by the Roman Inquisition, which kept him under house arrest for the rest of his life. Engravings like this one helped fix that complicated reputation into a lasting public image.
| Created / published | 1821 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by G. Rouen? after F. Benvenuti. Illus. in: Memoire e leffre ... Galileo Galilei, 1821, frontispiece. Ref. copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: A/P/P I.; BI; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 998 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152599 |
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