Author: P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher: British Library Board
ISBN: 9780712358248
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Looks in detail at eight regional maps of Palestine that were drawn between the late 12th century and the mid-14th ; with their various versions and derivatives we know them through 23 surviving artifacts.
Author: Pnina Arad
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782503585277
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Barbara Drake Boehm
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395987
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international center, home to multiple cultures, faiths, and languages. Harmonious and dissonant voices from many lands, including Persians, Turks, Greeks, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Copts, Ethiopians, Indians, and Europeans, passed in the narrow streets of a city not much larger than midtown Manhattan. Patrons, artists, pilgrims, poets, and scholars from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions focused their attention on the Holy City, endowing and enriching its sacred buildings, creating luxury goods for its residents, and praising its merits. This artistic fertility was particularly in evidence between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries, notwithstanding often devastating circumstances—from the earthquake of 1033 to the fierce battles of the Crusades. So strong a magnet was Jerusalem that it drew out the creative imagination of even those separated from it by great distance, from as far north as Scandinavia to as far east as present-day China. This publication is the first to define these four centuries as a singularly creative moment in a singularly complex city. Through absorbing essays and incisive discussions of nearly 200 works of art, Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven explores not only the meaning of the city to its many faiths and its importance as a destination for tourists and pilgrims but also the aesthetic strands that enhanced and enlivened the medieval city that served as the crossroads of the known world.
Author: Ariel Tishby
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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.".. maps of the Holy Land from a 6th century mosaic from Jordan ... to maps of the recent past"--Jacket.
Author: Shoshana Klein
Publisher: New York : A.R. Liss ; Amsterdam : Meridian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Author: P. D. A. Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Professor Harvey traces the development of western mapmaking from the early Middle Ages to the first printed maps of the late 15th century, discussing their traditions, artistic and technical aspects, and uses.
Author: Zev Vilnay
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eretz Israel
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Burke O. Long
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253341365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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At the Chautauqua Institution in New York, visitors could walk down Palestine Avenue to "Palestine" and a model of Jerusalem, or along Morris Avenue to a scale model of the "Jewish Tabernacle." At the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, a replica of Ottoman Jerusalem covered eleven acres, while today, 300 miles to the southeast, a seven-story-high Christ of the Ozarks stands above a modern re-creation of the Holy Land set in the Arkansas hills."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: George Adam Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atlases
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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Author: Kenneth Nebenzahl
Publisher: New York : Abbeville Press
ISBN: 9780896596580
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Shows sixty antique maps of the Middle East, explains the background of each map, and discusses the history of mapmaking
