The Celestial Figures
The Zodiac Man
The body as a small sky, governed limb by limb.
- Work
- from the Très Riches Heures
- Plate
- Anatomical Man
- Maker
- The Limbourg brothers
- Date
- c. 1416
- Source
- Musée Condé, Chantilly (MS 65) · scan: Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source plate — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A nude figure stands within an almond of light, the twelve signs of the zodiac ranged over his body — Aries at the head, Pisces at the feet — each ruling the part it touches. This 'Anatomical Man' closes the calendar pages of the Très Riches Heures, the dazzling book of hours the Limbourg brothers painted for the Duc de Berry around 1416. It is the finest surviving image of a very old idea: that the human body is a small sky, governed limb by limb by the stars above. Painted in lapis and gold, it belongs to medicine as much as to art — the map a physician once consulted before he acted.
See it on your wall
The plate, in your home
The Zodiac Man printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain plate — from the Très Riches Heures (1416), held by Musée Condé, Chantilly (MS 65) · scan: Wikimedia Commons. The work was published before 1931 and is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper; framed pieces sit behind acrylic, no mat.
- 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 pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our plates cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans available, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the emblem line, the letterpress bite, the registration of colour — on stock made to outlive its owner.
