# God Creating the Universe [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MEDIEVAL SCULPTOR, German]() - Date: 1201-1250 - Technique: Stone ## Commentary Until the advent of Copernicus, all knowledge about the universe had to be made to fit into the framework of the Ptolemaic model in which the Earth was firmly the centre of everything. The sculpture in the Freiburg Cathedral shows God creating the Universe, with the planetary spheres inside, covered by the sphere of the fixed stars. ## Related artworks - [Angel Noting down Man's Good Deeds]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar \(detail\)]() - [Angels' Pillar]() - [Animal column]() - [Bamberg Rider]() - [Burial chamber \(interior\)]() - [Burial chamber \(western outer wall\)]() - [Capital with bearded mask and heads]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()