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    Heck's Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture
    Heck's Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture
    Heck's Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture
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    Heck's Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture

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    2,200 illustrations from 19th-century archive include tombs, bridges, temples, mythological and religious figures, Egyptian painting, Greek sculpture, much more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateDec 31, 2013
    ISBN9780486155616
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      Heck's Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture - Dover Publications

      Heck’s Pictorial Archive of Art and Architecture

      EDITED BY

      J. G. HECK

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      NEW YORK

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1994 by Dover Publications, Inc.

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 1994, contains the complete sections Architecture, Mythology and Religious Rites and The Fine Arts (116 plates) and the accompanying descriptive contents of the plates from the Iconographic Encyclopœdia of Science, Literature, and Art. Systematically Arranged by J. G. Heck. Translated from the German, with Additions, and Edited by Spencer F. Baird, A.M., M.D., Professor of Natural Sciences in Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. Illustrated by Five Hundred Steel Plates, Containing Upwards of Twelve Thousand Engravings, originally published by Rudolph Garrigue, Publisher, New York, in 1851. The table of contents has been slightly rearranged for this edition.

      DOVER Pictorial Archive SERIES

      This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department, Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.)

      However, republication or reproduction of any illustration by any other graphic service, whether it be in a book or in any other design resource, is strictly prohibited.

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

      Heck, J. G. (Johann Georg), d. 1857.

      [Bilder Atlas zum Conversations Lexicon. English. Selections]

      Heck’s pictorial archive of art and architecture / edited by J. G. Heck.

            p. cm. — (Dover pictorial archive series)

      A selection of engravings from the Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art (New York, 1851), which was a translation of Heck’s Bilder Atlas zum Conversations Lexicon.

      eISBN-13: 978-0-4861-5561-6

        1. Engraving—19th century.   2. Architecture—Pictorial works.   3. Mythology—Pictorial works.   4. Art—Pictorial works.   I. Title.   II. Title: Pictorial archive of art and architecture.   III. Series.

      NE486.H4313   1994

      741.6—dc20

      94-25895

      CIP

      Manufactured in the United States of America

      Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

      Contents

      ARCHITECTURE

      PLATE 1.

      Fig. 1. Rock temple of Mavalipuram

      Fig. 2. Pagoda at Chalembaram

      Fig. 3. Pagoda at Tretshengur

      Fig. 4. Pagoda near Benares

      Fig. 5. Interior of the temple of Indra

      Fig. 6, 7. Grotto temples

      PLATE 2.

      Fig. 1. Temple of Kailasa near Ellora

      Fig. 2. Temple of Indra Sabah at Ellora

      Fig. 3. Interior of the grotto temple on the island of Elephanta

      Fig. 4. Interior of the temple of Wisua Karmah at Ellora

      PLATE 3.

      Figs. 1, 2. Sculptures from Nineveh

      Fig. 3–11. Fragments from Persepolis

      Fig. 12. Tomb of Nakshirustam

      Fig. 13–15. Hindoo pillars

      PLATE 4.

      Fig. 1. Temple of Antæopolis

      Fig. 2. Theatre in Antinoe

      Fig. 3. Ruins of Apollinopolis Magna

      Fig. 4. Temple of Carnak

      Fig. 5a. Temple of Tentyra

      Fig. 5b. Temple at Latopolis

      Fig. 6. Temple on the island of Philæ

      Fig. 7. Rock-cut tombs of Silsilis

      Fig. 8. Entrance to the temple of Typhon at Denderah

      PLATE 5.

      Figs. 1–6. Temple of Apollinopolis Magna

      Fig 7. Plan of the Palace of Carnak

      Fig 8–11. Details from the same

      Fig. 12. Catacombs at Thebes

      Fig. 13, 14. Catacombs of Alexandria

      PLATE 6.

      Fig. 1. Pyramid in Lake Mœris

      Fig. 2. Pyramids of Gizeh

      Fig. 3. Section of a pyramid at

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