Based on J.G.Heck's Bilder Atlas zum Conversations Lexicon, published in Germany in the last century, the Iconographic Encyclopaedia of Science, Literature, and Art was a monumental six-volume compilation of illustrations and information covering an enormous range of subjects, from architecture to zoology. Among its most remarkable features were the more than 11,000 superb steel engravings, comprising one of the most extensive pictorial archives ever published in a single work. The present book, one of three separate and independent volumes based on the rare original American edition of 1851, is devoted to architecture, mythology and fine art. Included are thousands of splendid, finely detailed illustrations of prehistoric tombs, pyramids, catacombs, classical temples and medieval cathedrals, as well as museums, arches, bridges and scores of other structures. Also depicted are clear, usable representations of mythological and religious figures and rites from many cultures: Hindu,...

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