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Picturing History: Hendrik Willem van Loon

Illustrations from 'The Story of Mankind'

  • Home
  • The Story
  • The Illustrator
  • Timeline
  • Credits
  • The Exhibition
    • Geography
    • Visual Metaphors
    • Individuals
    • Events
    • Architecture
    • Maps of Time
    • Allegories
  • Home
  • The Story
  • The Illustrator
  • Timeline
  • Credits
  • The Exhibition
    • Geography
    • Visual Metaphors
    • Individuals
    • Events
    • Architecture
    • Maps of Time
    • Allegories

The Exhibition

The Exhibition

Geography

"How Rome Happened," p.105
"Civilization goes Westward," p.107
"The Spreading of the Sovereignty," p.185
"The Pilgrims," p.324
"The Spread of the Imperial Idea," p.460

Visual Metaphors

"Mesopotamia, the Melting-pot of the Ancient World," p. 30
"The Story of a Word," p. 45
"The Great Roman Empire," p. 117
"The Holy Roman Empire of German Nationality," p. 147
"The Monroe Doctrine," p. 385

individuals

"The Troubadour," p. 442
"Moses Sees the Holy Land," p.41
"The Death of Hannibal," p.103
"Henry IV at Canossa," p.165
"Dante," p. 212
"Marco Polo," p. 225
"George Washington," p. 331
"Louis XVI," p. 339
"Giusseppe Mazzini," p. 395
"Galileo," p. 429
"The Pioneer," p. 447

Events

"Hannibal Crosses the Alps," p. 99
"Magellan," p. 237
"A New World," facing p. 238
"Buddha Goes into the Mountains," facing p. 246
"The Murder of William the Silent," p. 270
"The Armada is Coming!", p. 271
"Peter the Great in the Dutch Shipyard," p. 308
"In the Cabin of the Mayflower," p. 327

Architecture

"Greece," facing p. 84
"Rome," facing p. 126
"The Castle," facing p. 164
"The Castle and the City," p. 179
"The Renaissance," p. 210

Maps of Times

"Pre-history and History," p. 11
"How the City of Rome Happened," p. 92
"The Manuscript and the Printed Book," p. 222
"The Great Moral Leaders," p. 249
"Man-power and Machine-power," p. 414

Allegories

"Greek Society," p. 67
"The Struggle Between the Cross and the Crescent," p. 143
"The Inquisition," p. 263
"The Balance of Power," p. 299
"The Spectre Which Frightened the Holy Alliance," p. 364
"The Real Congress of Vienna," p. 367
"War," p. 457

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