Robinson's Arch, Jerusalem
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey French
Not on view
Girault here deploys a figure (a man with one foot propped on a pile of rubble) to accentuate his subject: the stump of an arch identified in 1838 by the scholar Edward Robinson. Excavations in the twentieth century revealed that the once-wide stone arch had supported a monumental staircase at the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif, connecting it to the lower market.
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