{"id":5357,"date":"2026-07-07T18:43:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:43:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:43:54","slug":"the-crater-clavius-new-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrishankey-artist.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/the-crater-clavius-new-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crater Clavius …… New drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My latest drawing of the Moon, Clavius is one of my favourite craters and it is a huge crater at 231 km across and approx 3.5 km deep and is ancient dating to between 3.8 and 4 billion years It has a fascinating arc of inner craters.<\/div>\n
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Named by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli in 1651 after Christopher Clavius, a famous 16th-century German Jesuit priest, mathematician, and astronomer.<\/div>\n
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For myself I love it’s connection to the film 2001 A Space Odyssey – that it was Clavius base.<\/div>\n
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The drawing was done through direct observation and finished using images I took during the same session. It is not a copy and it is not generated by AI<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Clavius Graphite on prepared paper 29 x29 cm 2026<\/div>\n
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This is available to purchase from me unframed \u00a3250 I can frame this contact me for more details<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In the Sketchbook<\/div>\n
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Crpped<\/div>\n
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