{"title":"Calendars","description":"\u003cp\u003eA year kept by the old masters. Printed to order.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-year-through-the-otherworld-2027-dore-wall-calendar","title":"A Year Through the Otherworld — 2027 Doré Wall Calendar","description":"\u003cp\u003eA man stands among the trees. He has lost the road, and the year has only just begun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOld Heaven’s 2027 calendar follows twelve of Gustave Doré’s wood engravings through Dante’s Divine Comedy: the dark wood, the ferryman, the wind that never rests, the mountain, and the great white rose of Paradise. Each month carries lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation, with a note on the scene and an Old Heaven reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe sequence is our own. July bends beneath a stone; August steps back into the morning air. By December, the solitary figure of January has reached a heaven crowded with light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoré gives these places their scale. A cliff occupies most of the world. Two travellers make their way beneath it. Even Paradise is large enough to make a person hesitate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHang it somewhere ordinary. There are appointments to keep beneath all those angels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInspired by\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy the poem’s own reckoning, it is Holy Week of the year 1300 when Dante Alighieri finds himself lost in a dark wood. What follows is a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and out among the stars of Paradise, first with the Roman poet Virgil as his guide, then with Beatrice, and at the last with Saint Bernard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the 1860s the French artist Gustave Doré drew that journey, and master engravers cut his designs into wood. Eleven of these twelve plates are reproduced from scans of a Berlin edition of 1870–71 held by the National Library of Poland. April’s Charon comes from a nineteenth-century Cassell edition of Henry Francis Cary’s English translation. We have not redrawn them. Apart from one scanning mark removed from April’s plate, each is reproduced as printed, cropped to its printed border with an even margin of its own paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach month pairs one plate with lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation and a short note on the scene. The order is ours, not Dante’s: it begins in the wood in January and ends among the stars in December.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDante began by admitting he was lost. A year can begin the same way. Hang it where you will see it every morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 14 × 11.5 in wall calendar that opens to 14 × 23 in when hung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve Gustave Doré plates for Dante’s \u003cem\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/em\u003e, one for each month, January–December 2027\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy art pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte, writable grid pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUS federal holidays, plus two Dante dates: Dantedì (March 25) and the anniversary of Dante’s death (September 14, 1321)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral bound, with a hanging hole\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted in the USA by our print partner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade to order: each calendar is printed after you order it, then ships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© 2026 Shawn Neville\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade with AI assistance, following human aesthetic, mythic and historical direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Old Heaven","offers":[{"title":"14 × 11.5 in \/ Glossy","offer_id":67757642612824,"sku":"12287582328787561634","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0859\/5698\/4920\/files\/dore-calendar-2027-01-front-cover.png?v=1792314998"},{"product_id":"architectures-of-heaven-2027-cellarius-wall-calendar","title":"Architectures of Heaven — 2027 Cellarius Wall Calendar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn January, you are the centre of the universe. Enjoy it while it lasts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy February, Copernicus has moved the furniture. The Sun occupies the middle, and the Earth has been given somewhere to go. March offers Tycho Brahe’s more complicated arrangement: the planets circle the Sun, while the Sun circles us. A compromise on a cosmic scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchitectures of Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e carries you through 2027 in twelve plates from Andreas Cellarius’s \u003cem\u003eHarmonia Macrocosmica\u003c\/em\u003e: a celestial atlas first published in Amsterdam in 1660, when rival accounts of the universe could be drawn with extraordinary conviction—and equally extravagant borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year opens with three competing world systems, then follows the workings of the sky: the turn of the seasons, the Sun’s apparent winding path, the changing Moon, the motions of Venus and Mercury, and the ambitious business of measuring things no one could reach. By autumn, the heavens fill with classical constellations. The final months introduce their Christian counterparts, an attempt to give the old stars a different congregation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese reproductions come from the atlas’s 1708 issue, held by the Municipal Library of Trento. Each plate appears whole within its engraved frame, with a narrow margin of the original paper. There is time here to follow a line, decipher a figure, or discover that the attractive thing above your desk has quietly started an argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the study, the reading room, or wherever you make plans that occasionally require a larger perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwelve months. Several universes. Room for your appointments.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA 14 × 11.5 in wall calendar that opens to 14 × 23 in when hung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwelve plates from Andreas Cellarius’s \u003cem\u003eHarmonia Macrocosmica\u003c\/em\u003e, one for each month, January–December 2027\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlossy art pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte, writable grid pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUS federal holidays, plus two astronomers’ birthdays: Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February) and Tycho Brahe (14 December)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral bound, with a hanging hole\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted in the USA by our print partner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInspired by\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe heavens have never lacked interpreters.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have given them circles, beasts, heroes, saints—and a remarkable number of explanations for why everything ought to revolve around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1660, the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius issued Andreas Cellarius’s \u003cem\u003eHarmonia Macrocosmica\u003c\/em\u003e. Cellarius was a German-born schoolmaster and rector of the Latin School at Hoorn. His atlas brought together twenty-nine engraved plates: an elaborate visual account of rival world systems, celestial motions, and the figures with which people had furnished the night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePtolemy’s Earth stands at the centre. Copernicus gives that place to the Sun. Tycho Brahe arranges a universe in which the planets travel around the Sun while the Sun travels around the Earth. Turn the pages and the same heavens submit to another explanation. The engraving is assured even where the explanations disagree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, the argument concerns who belongs overhead. Classical constellations share the atlas with the Christian figures proposed by Julius Schiller in 1627. In one of the plates selected for this calendar, the ancient ship Argo becomes Noah’s Ark. The stars keep their places. The ship acquires a different history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is part of the fascination. We look up to discover what is there, and bring so much of ourselves to the looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOld Heaven’s twelve-plate sequence is our own. It begins with the contest over the centre, passes through the motions and proportions of the heavens, and ends among the stories laid across them. The reproductions are drawn from scans of the 1708 issue published by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, now held in Trento.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang it somewhere you can look up from the day’s small certainties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe universe has survived a great many of ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing has been redrawn or recoloured; where a scan sat slightly askew, it has been turned square.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlates: Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, first published by Johannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1660. 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