page_title: Vincenzo Coronelli
section_title: Globes for Louis XIV
hierarchical_section_title: Vincenzo Coronelli / Globes for Louis XIV
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Globe terrestre de la paire des Globes de Coronelli (dit Globes de Marly) (1681-1683), Bibliothèque nationale de France, site François-Mitterrand (Paris, France) English: Coronelli Terrestrial Globe (1681-1683), Bibliothèque nationale de France, François-Mitterrand site, Paris, France.
context_page_description: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli was an Italian Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes. He spent most of his life in Venice.
context_section_description: Cardinal César d'Estrées, friend and adviser to Louis XIV and ambassador to Rome, saw the Duke of Parma’s globes and invited Coronelli to Paris in 1681 to construct a pair of globes for the Most Christian King.  Coronelli moved to the French capital in 1681, where he lived for two years.  Each globe was composed of spindles of bent timber about ten feet long and four inches broad at the equator.  This wood was then coated with a layer of plaster about an inch thick and covered in a layer of strong unfinished fabric.  This was then wrapped in a quarter-inch layer of two very fine fabrics which provided backing for the painted information of the globes.  These globes, measuring 384 cm in diameter and weighing approximately 2 tons, are displayed in the Bibliothèque nationale François Mitterrand in Paris.  The globes depicted the latest information of French explorations in North America, particularly the expeditions of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
caption: The terrestrial globe Coronelli made for Louis XIV.
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