Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 – Historic Print
![Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/7f/7f8d2a8c1fb6-L.webp)
(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 rare historic print captures Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is the subject of this reproduction of a painting, a portrait of the Italian astronomer and physicist whose telescopic observations reshaped how people understood the heavens. Born in Pisa, he later worked in Padua and Florence, where he championed the Copernican view that the Earth moves around the Sun, a position that brought him into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church and led to his trial in 1633. The caption card carries no date, so the print's origin is uncertain, but the figure it depicts remains one of the defining names of the scientific revolution.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print. |
| Notes | Repro. of painting. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,236 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147744 |
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