Art, literature & history
The Hierarchy of the Heavens
1579
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 37.6 × 27.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.) (trimmed)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.156
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jost Amman. The Hierarchy of the Heavens. Jost Amman; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jost_Amman,_The_Hierarchy_of_the_Heavens,_1579,_NGA_153538.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Hierarchy of the Heavens — Jost Amman. 1579.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 37.6 × 27.4 cm (14 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.) (trimmed).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.156. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.