"Atlas Historique" vol. I title-page engraving

A frontispiece created by an unknown author in volume I of the Chatelains’ Atlas historique pictures the Muses: Chronology, History, Navigation and Geography, each holding an attribute symbolising its respective sphere of activities. The cherubs are playing about, reading a book by Herodotus and displaying the map of Europe, thus demonstrating their knowledge, while in the deep background, Atlantis is holding up the heavens, although not on his shoulders but supported against a pyramid. The angel soaring high in the sky has a banner on his trumpet with the title of Atlas historique, thus breaking the news about a new atlas.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album LITUANIA IN ATLANTIBUS (2011). Text author Algimantas Muzikevičius

A frontispiece created by an unknown author in volume I of the Chatelains’ Atlas historique pictures the Muses: Chronology, History, Navigation and Geography, each holding an attribute symbolising its respective sphere of activities. The cherubs are playing about, reading a book by Herodotus and displaying the map of Europe, thus demonstrating their knowledge, while in the deep background, Atlantis is holding up the heavens, although not on his shoulders but supported against a pyramid. The angel soaring high in the sky has a banner on his trumpet with the title of Atlas historique, thus breaking the news about a new atlas.

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album LITUANIA IN ATLANTIBUS (2011). Text author Algimantas Muzikevičius