Subject

Globe

The Chess Players — Thomas Eakins

Globe is a subject in art. The gallery holds 49 works in this subject in art, including works by Thomas Eakins, Johannes Vermeer and Anthony van Dyck.

A globe is a spherical model of Earth, of some other celestial body, or of the celestial sphere. Globes serve purposes similar to maps, but, unlike maps, they do not distort the surface that they portray except to scale it down.

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