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Sacred at first glance. Less reassuring when you count the mouths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe were taken by that combination. The splendor, certainly. Also the complete absence of any wish to put you at ease. This is a creature that could keep a secret for centuries and consider the conversation unfinished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Old Heaven framed art print after Lechter’s \u003cem\u003eHerodias\u003c\/em\u003e ornament, with the ivory ground and blue-and-gold intricacy given room to breathe inside a generous white border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHang it where the afternoon light finds it. Your guests may ask what it means. You are under no obligation to make them comfortable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFramed print details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 × 10-inch matte paper print in your choice of black or white pinewood frame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCentered 3.62 × 4.83-inch ivory image panel, surrounded by a generous printed white border\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClear plexiglass cover, rigid backing, and pre-installed hanging hardware\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGold ornament reproduced in ochre ink tones with a matte finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApproximately ¼ inch of the paper edge sits beneath the frame; the central artwork remains fully visible\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrame manufactured in Italy; printed and assembled in the USA or Canada\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade to order for indoor display; ships to the United States and its territories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShipping is calculated at checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtwork: Melchior Lechter, title ornament for Stéphane Mallarmé’s Herodias (German version by Stefan George), Berlin: Blätter für die Kunst, 1905. 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Her help sounds a lot like being told to get up and do something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor someone who needs a fierce, wise presence over their work, or who has been that presence for someone else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady to hang: an 8 × 10 in framed print in a white or black wood frame. At home in a study, above a desk, or as a gift for a mentor or a daughter with ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtwork: N. C. Wyeth, “Athene”, from \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey of Homer\u003c\/em\u003e, trans. George Herbert Palmer (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929).\u003cbr\u003e\nReproduced from the original book plate. 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That news, he wrote, began the greatest festival of their year, celebrated while it was still dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSailors long kept a similar faith. From the early Middle Ages, Christian writers called Mary \u003cem\u003eStella Maris\u003c\/em\u003e, “Star of the Sea”. In the ninth century Paschasius Radbertus described her as a star to follow “lest we capsize amid the storm-tossed waves”. The Herald holds both ideas: the first light seen from a height, and the star a ship steers by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the one who sees the light first and carries the word down to the others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSizes: 12 × 16 in \/ 16 × 20 in (vertical)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack solid-pine frame, matte finish; clear plexiglass front\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte paper print; no mat. The art sits on a deep black field. 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The sun keeps its human face. Around them, snow lies on the rock and the winter pines stand still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe green lion devouring the sun is one of alchemy’s best-known images. Here we give it a winter setting and our own reading: light passing into the body of the beast, carried beneath the dark surface of things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat appears to vanish may be entering another form. For those doing the hidden work: the season within the season, the fire beneath the green.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInspired by\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003eRosarium philosophorum\u003c\/em\u003e (Rosary of the Philosophers) was printed in Frankfurt in 1550 with twenty woodcuts. It became one of the most-quoted texts of European alchemy. One of its images shows a lion devouring the sun. The green lion swallowing the sun is now counted among the classic emblems of the art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlchemists rarely explained their pictures plainly, and the image has many readings. A common one is that the sun stands for gold, dissolved in a powerful solvent (the green lion) so that its seed can be freed and the work begun again. Rome hailed the midwinter sun as \u003cem\u003eInvictus\u003c\/em\u003e, unconquered. The alchemists imagined a sun that has to be swallowed before it can be renewed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor the one who knows that what seems lost is often only changing form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSizes: 12 × 16 in \/ 16 × 20 in (vertical)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack solid-pine frame, matte finish; clear plexiglass front\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMatte paper print; no mat. The art sits on a deep black field. About ¼ in at each edge sits beneath the frame lip, and the composition is set back to allow for it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives fully assembled and ready to hang, with hangers fitted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted and framed to order in the US or Canada. 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Griffins kept it in the far north, the story went, and lions sat at the doors of kings. When the steppe empire rose, it moved thousands of weavers across Asia and set them to one task: to weave power you could wear. They threaded gold through silk until the cloth itself shone like a treasury, and in its roundels they placed the guardians, paired lions with clouds in their wings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Golden Bestiary calls those guardians home. Winged lions stand in pearl-ringed circles, ochre on deep charcoal, framed by a border of palmettes and stars. They’re not here to be locked away. They’re here to keep watch over the chair you read in, the bed you dream in, and the one who keeps them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eInspired by\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn original Old Heaven design, inspired by, not a reproduction of, a museum textile.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur starting point was \u003cem\u003eCloth of gold with winged lions and griffins\u003c\/em\u003e, woven in Central Asia between about 1225 and 1275 and now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The museum calls it the most resplendent example known of the cloths of gold the Mongol empire made as emblems of imperial authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was woven where worlds met. The paired lions in roundels come from Iran, the clouds curling on their wings from China. The museum believes Iranian and Chinese craftsmen made it together with local artisans in an imperial workshop. Its gold was laid on paper, an Asian method, and woven in lampas, a technique Iranian weavers developed and that was adopted far beyond Iran.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCloth like this was worn at the Mongol court, sent as imperial gifts, and traded west. Europeans called these silks \u003cem\u003epanni tartarici\u003c\/em\u003e, and a pope’s treasury in 1295 counted vestments made from them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Persian tradition behind this design, the lion guarded kings and sacred places. The griffin, in a story already old when Herodotus told it, guards gold. We kept the winged lions and the colour of gold; the griffins, the silk and the gold thread stay in Cleveland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis throw is for the person who keeps a treasure in daily use instead of behind glass. For whoever is the quiet guardian of a home, the one who remembers the old stories, and who knows a thing gains meaning by being lived with. You don’t just decorate. 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The gold is yarn colour, not metallic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCare: machine wash cold (max 30°C \/ 86°F) on gentle with mild detergent, non-chlorine bleach only, tumble dry low.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtwork by Shawn Neville.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInspiration: \u003cem\u003eCloth of gold with winged lions and griffins\u003c\/em\u003e, Central Asia, 1225–75, unknown weavers. Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. 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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\" x 11.5\" \/ 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\u003eTwelve copperplate views of the heavens from Andreas Cellarius’s Harmonia Macrocosmica, the celestial atlas published in Amsterdam in 1660, reproduced from scans of its 1708 issue. Old Heaven’s 2027 calendar sets them out as a year of arguments about the sky. January puts the Earth at the centre; February moves the centre to the Sun; March tries Tycho Brahe’s answer, in which the planets circle the Sun and the Sun circles the Earth. Through the middle of the year come the Sun’s apparent spiral path, the phases of the Moon, the motions of Venus and Mercury and the sizes of the heavenly bodies. The year ends among the stars: the classical constellations in September and October, then, in November and December, the Christian sky that Julius Schiller proposed in 1627. Each month pairs a plate with a short note on what it shows and a line of our own. These are pictures of how people once reasoned about their place in the heavens, not charts of tonight’s sky. Hang it where the week’s appointments can sit beneath a whole universe.\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\u003eIn 1660 the Amsterdam publisher Johannes Janssonius issued the Harmonia Macrocosmica, an atlas of the heavens by Andreas Cellarius, a German-born schoolmaster who was rector of the Latin School at Hoorn, north of Amsterdam. Its twenty-nine large plates set the great world systems side by side: Ptolemy’s universe with the Earth at its centre, the Sun-centred system of Copernicus, and Tycho Brahe’s compromise between them. Maps of the starry sky follow, some with the Christian figures that Julius Schiller had proposed in 1627, others with the classical constellations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCellarius drew each system as a hypothesis, to be looked at and compared, and he meant the atlas to open a larger work on cosmography that never appeared. In 1694 the copperplates were bought by the Amsterdam publishers Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk, who reissued them in 1708. The twelve plates in this calendar are reproduced from scans of a copy of that 1708 issue in the Municipal Library of Trento. Each is shown whole, inside its engraved frame, with a narrow margin of its own paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe order is ours. The year begins with the Earth at the centre, moves the centre to the Sun and then tries both at once. It follows the Sun, the Moon and the planets, and ends with the sky filled first by the old figures of myth and then, in November and December, by figures from the Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are not charts of tonight’s sky. They are pictures of how people once reasoned about their place among the stars. Hang the calendar where you will see it every day, and let each month ask January’s question again: where do we stand?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlates: Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, first published by Johannes Janssonius, Amsterdam, 1660. Reproduced from the 1708 Amsterdam issue by Gerard Valk and Petrus Schenk in the Municipal Library of Trento (CBT 5869542, 5869605, 5869634, 5869621, 5870137, 5870173, 5870197, 5869938, 5870375, 5870414, 5870336, 5870364), via Wikimedia Commons. 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