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.

Maker: Vincenzo Coronelli
Date: c. 1690s
Medium of the original: Printed globe gores
Original held by: Venice
Credit: Venice
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00336

As chosen: 18 x 24 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	18 x 24 in
Outside size	19.6 x 25.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 12 in	930	Excellent	Trimmed 1.9%
12 x 16 in	632	Excellent	Trimmed 9.4%
12 x 18 in	620	Excellent	Trimmed 1.9%
16 x 24 in	465	Excellent	Trimmed 1.9%
18 x 24 in	421	Excellent	Trimmed 9.4%
20 x 30 in	372	Excellent	Trimmed 1.9%
24 x 36 in	310	Excellent	Trimmed 1.9%
30 x 40 in	253	Excellent	Trimmed 9.4%
36 x 48 in	210	Excellent	Trimmed 9.4%
40 x 60 in	186	Good	Trimmed 1.9%