himmelbillede
Himmelbillede is a Danish noun meaning "image of the sky" or "sky picture." It is formed from the nouns himmel (sky, heaven) and billede (image, picture), and is used to describe depictions of the heavens in art, documentation, or literature. In art history, a himmelbillede may refer to paintings, drawings, or engravings that show the sky, celestial bodies such as the sun, moon, and stars, or astronomical or meteorological phenomena. In natural history and cartography, the term can describe plates or illustrations in atlases and manuals that present constellations, celestial maps, or sky-related phenomena. The phrase also appears in religious or poetic contexts to denote a representation of heaven or the heavenly realm, sometimes as a metaphor for idealized beauty or transcendence.
Today, himmelbillede is primarily a historical or literary term rather than a living technical category in