Painting The Holy Land In The Nineteenth Century

Author : Yehoshua Ben-Arieh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004236791

Get Book

Painting the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh Pdf

The Holy Land has captures the attention of mankind since the very beginning of human civilization, and even more so from the early days of Christianity. Nineteenth-century Palestine fired the imagination of the Western world. Improved travel facilities and greater political stability in the Near Easst brought ever-increasing numbers of visitors to the Holy Land, affecting the quantity and quality of the pictorial depictions of its sites and scenes. Like other countries in the exotic Muslim East, Palestine also became a point of focal interest for painters of the Orientalist school. The author has assembled a fascinating collection of unique works of art, executed in the diverse styles of nineteenth-century painting. Around these reproductions, many of them in colour, he reconstructs the story of the artists who produced them, who came from many European countries and from North America. The result is an important and unique perspective on the sites, persons, events and customs of the Holy Land in that century.

Author : Ruth Ben-Arie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1423820433

Get Book

Painting the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century by Ruth Ben-Arie Pdf

Author : Amanda M. Burritt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030412616

Get Book

Visualising Britain’s Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century by Amanda M. Burritt Pdf

This book demonstrates the complexity of nineteenth-century Britain’s engagement with Palestine and its surrounds through the conceptual framing of the region as the Holy Land. British engagement with the region of the Near East in the nineteenth century was multi-faceted, and part of its complexity was exemplified in the powerful relationship between developing and diverse Protestant theologies, visual culture and imperial identity. Britain’s Holy Land was visualised through pictorial representation which helped Christians to imagine the land in which familiar Bible stories took place. This book explores ways in which the geopolitical Holy Land was understood as embodying biblical land, biblical history and biblical typology. Through case studies of three British artists, David Roberts, David Wilkie and William Holman Hunt, this book provides a nuanced interpretation of some of the motivations, religious perspectives, attitudes and behaviours of British Protestants in their relationship with the Near East at the time.

Author : John Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : 0300249721

Get Book

The Landscape of Belief by John Davis Pdf

This book tells of the nineteenth-century American painters who, along with photographers, archaeologists, writers, evangelists, and tourists, flocked to the biblical Holy Land, a world of striking landscape vistas that reflected, in their eyes, a powerful image of the United States. Here they saw a metaphor for their country: a New World promised land, a divinely favored Protestant nation created by and for a modern "chosen people." Taking these biblical associations as a starting point, John Davis examines the ways in which nineteenth-century Americans looked to the actual landscape of the Holy Land as an extension of their national identity. Through close readings of panoramas, photographs, and conventional easel paintings, he shows how this "sacred topography" became a place to work out the competing ideological debates surrounding American exceptionalism, prophetic millennialism, anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish sentiment, and post-Darwinian science.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892215178

Get Book

The Holy Land I Love by Anonim Pdf

When world-renowned artist David Roberts was commissioned to paint scenes of biblical lands, the nineteenth-century painter was overjoyed. The dazzling detail and color of his paintings brought Egypt, Palestine, and Lebanon into focus for the first time to audiences all over the world. His rich illustrations provide virtually the only visual, early records of the region, including the buried Sphinx; wild-but-mystical Jerusalem; Bethlehem; Hebron; Petra; and the Jordan River. Capturing life as it really was in the Holy Land brought Roberts international fame, and now these scenes are available to a new generation of pilgrims. A historical treasury in one stunning volume.

Author : Yehoshua Ben-Arieh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110626407

Get Book

The Making of Eretz Israel in the Modern Era by Yehoshua Ben-Arieh Pdf

Napoleon’s invasion of the Middle East marks the beginning of the modern era in the region. This book traces the developments that led to the making of a new and separate geographical-political entity in the Middle East known as Eretz Israel and the establishment of the State of Israel within its bounds. Thus, its time frame runs from Napoleon’s invasion of Eretz Israel / Palestine in 1799 to the establishment of Israel in 1948–1949. Eretz Israel as the formal name of a separate entity in the modern era first appeared in the early translations into Hebrew of the Balfour Declaration, while in the original document the country was referred to as “Palestine.” During the period of Ottoman rule the territory that would in time be called Eretz Israel / Palestine was not a separate political unit. Among Jews, use of “Eretz Israel” increased only after the beginning of Zionist aliyot. Had the Zionist movement not arisen, it is doubtful whether the development to which this study is devoted would have occurred. The motivating force behind that process is without doubt the Zionist element. That is why Jews are the major protagonists in this book.

Author : René Gothóni
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Buddhist pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 3034301618

Get Book

Pilgrims and Travellers in Search of the Holy by René Gothóni Pdf

"Papers ... delivered at an international symposium entitled "Pilgrims and travellers in search of the holy" convened in Helsinki in 2008"--Introd.

Author : David Gange,Michael Ledger-Lomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107004245

Get Book

Cities of God by David Gange,Michael Ledger-Lomas Pdf

This book shows how, in unearthing biblical cities, archaeology transformed nineteenth-century thinking on the truth of Christianity and its role in modern cities.

Author : Lily Arad
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110767612

Get Book

Gifts from Jerusalem Jews to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchs by Lily Arad Pdf

Presentations of offerings to the emperor-king on anniversaries of his accession became an important imperial ritual in the court of Franz Joseph I. This book explores for the first time the identity constructions of Orthodox Jewish communities in Jerusalem as expressed in their gifts to the Austro-Hungarian Kaisers at the time of dramatic events. It reveals how the beautiful gifts, their dedications, and their narratives, were perceived by gift-givers and recipients as instruments capable of acting upon various social, cultural and political processes. Lily Arad describes in a captivating manner the historical narratives of the creation and presentation of these gifts. She analyzes the iconography of these gifts as having transformative effect on the self-identification of the Jewish communities and examines their reception by the Kaisers and in the Austrian and the Palestinian Jewish press. This groundbreaking book unveils Jewish cultural and political strategies aimed to create local Eretz-Israel identities, demonstrating distinct positive communal identification which at times expressed national sentiments and at the same time preserved European identification.

Author : Haim Goren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857719393

Get Book

Dead Sea Level by Haim Goren Pdf

In the nineteenth century The Dead Sea and the Tigris-Euphrates river system had great political significance: the one as a possible gateway for a Russian invasion of Egypt, the other as a potentially faster route to India. This is the traditional explanation for the presence of the international powers in the region. This important new book questions this view. Through a study of two important projects of the time - international efforts to determine the exact level of the Dead Sea, and Chesney's Euphrates Expedition to find a quicker route to India - Professor Goren shows how other forces than the interests of empire, were involved. He reveals the important role played by private individuals and establishes a wealth of new connections between the key players; and he reveals for the first time an important Irish nexus. The resulting work adds an important new dimension to our existing understanding of this period.

Author : Tamar Mayer,Suleiman A. Mourad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134102877

Get Book

Jerusalem by Tamar Mayer,Suleiman A. Mourad Pdf

With contributions from many noted scholars in a wide range of fields, this is a multidisciplinary study of one of the world's great cities that is of enormous, historical, religious and political significance.

Author : Susan Sinclair
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789047412076

Get Book

Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vols.) by Susan Sinclair Pdf

Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Author : Kathleen Stewart Howe,Santa Barbara Museum of Art,St. Louis Art Museum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0899510957

Get Book

Revealing the Holy Land by Kathleen Stewart Howe,Santa Barbara Museum of Art,St. Louis Art Museum Pdf

Exhibition itinerary : Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Jan. 29-May 31, 1998; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Oct. 13-Dec. 13, 1999; St. Louis Art Museum, Feb. 23-May 23, 1999.

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190294878

Get Book

American Painting of the Nineteenth Century by Barbara Novak Pdf

In this distinguished work, which Hilton Kramer in The New York Times Book Review called "surely the best book ever written on the subject," Barbara Novak illuminates what is essentially American about American art. She highlights not only those aspects that appear indigenously in our art works, but also those features that consistently reappear over time. Novak examines the paintings of Washington Allston, Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Fitz H. Lane, William Sidney Mount, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and Albert Pinkham Ryder. She draws provocative and original conclusions about the role in American art of spiritualism and mathematics, conceptualism and the object, and Transcendentalism and the fact. She analyzes not only the paintings but nineteenth-century aesthetics as well, achieving a unique synthesis of art and literature. Now available with a new preface and an updated bibliography, this lavishly illustrated volume--featuring more than one hundred black-and-white illustrations and sixteen full-color plates--remains one of the seminal works in American art history.

Author : Moshe Davis
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Americans
ISBN : 0814330347

Get Book

America and Zion by Moshe Davis Pdf

Moshe Davis was a preeminent scholar of contemporary Jewish history and the rounding head of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A recognized leader in the field of bicultural American/Jewish studies, he was a mentor to educators and academics in both Israel and North America and an active colleague of American Christian scholars involved in interfaith study and dialogue. These wide-ranging essays, many of them presented at a colloquium that Professor Davis had planned but did not live to attend, honor him by exploring the theme of Zion as an integral part of American spiritual history and as a site of interfaith discourse. Not only do these essays stress the role of individuals in history, but they also incorporate views outside those of mainstream religions. American attitudes toward the land of the Bible reflect both Jewish values that arose from their abiding attachment to Zion and the uniquely American Christian vision of a utopian pre-industrial, pre-urban, pre-secularized world. Whereas American Christians expected to be lifted out of their ordinary lives when they visited the Holy Land, Jews saw in their affinity for Zion a strong link to their American environment. Jews viewed America's biblical heritage as a source of practical values such as fair play and equality, social vision and political covenant. In inviting such comparisons, these essays illuminate the relationship of Judaism to America and the richness of American religious experience overall.