The Hunt-Lenox-Globe - The Original and Replicas of It

Pippal, Martina ; Horst, Thomas ; Blänsdorf, Catharina und Falcon Martinez, Maria Fernanda (2025): The Hunt-Lenox-Globe - The Original and Replicas of It. In: Globe Studies, Vol. 69: pp. 118-161

Abstract

The Hunt-Lenox Globe in the New York Public Library is considered in this article from two perspectives: one art-historical and one interdisciplinary. From the first perspective, it seems more likely that the globe was produced around 1530, whilst it is usually dated to approximately 1510. From the latter perspective, an international transdisciplinary cooperative looked at the globe and modern facsimiles of it simultaneously. By combining object analyses with the study of historical sources and eyewitness interviews, it has been possible to reconstruct the reproduction process of 1984/1985, to which a replica that was classified by its owner, a private collector, as a work by Leonardo da Vinci and as the casting model for the Hunt-Lenox Globe can also be assigned.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: History of Globes; Hunt-Lenox-Globe; Facsimile Campaign by the Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library
• Faculties: History and Art History > Department of History > Methods of Historiography and Historiographical Studies of Media
• Subjects: 900 History and geography > 900 Geschichte; 900 History and geography > 910 Geography and travel
• ISSN: 1680-5356
• Language: English