WITH MAPS, TEXT AND A SEQUENCE OF PICTURES, the “Shorter Atlas of Western Civilisation” traces the essential themes in Western man’s cultural development. Professor F. van der Meer’s commentary begins with the formative period of art, literature and philosophy during the “Golden Age” of Greece, and shows how roots then put down have been reborn and developed through the several ages of darkness and enlightenment. Nineteen maps in colour illustrate the main periods in the history of European culture, and 260 pictures have been carefully selected to characterise great periods in Western civilisation’s cultural history. The picture above is a detail from “The Civic Guard,” 1633, by Franz Haals, now in the Franz Haalsmuseum, Haarlem.

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31440, 5 August 1967, Page 4

WITH MAPS, TEXT AND A SEQUENCE OF PICTURES, the “Shorter Atlas of Western Civilisation” traces the essential themes in Western man’s cultural development. Professor F. van der Meer’s commentary begins with the formative period of art, literature and philosophy during the “Golden Age” of Greece, and shows how roots then put down have been reborn and developed through the several ages of darkness and enlightenment. Nineteen maps in colour illustrate the main periods in the history of European culture, and 260 pictures have been carefully selected to characterise great periods in Western civilisation’s cultural history. The picture above is a detail from “The Civic Guard,” 1633, by Franz Haals, now in the Franz Haalsmuseum, Haarlem.