Détails de la frise de la retraite des Apôtres, Valée de Hinnom, Jérusalem / Auguste Salzmann
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2014/2.104
- Title
- Détails de la frise de la retraite des Apôtres, Valée de Hinnom, Jérusalem
- Artist
- Auguste Salzmann
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- 1824-1872
- Medium and Support
- Blanquart-Evrard process salted paper print from a paper negative on cream colored plate paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1854-1856
- Dimensions
- 22 x 32.7 cm (8 11/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
- Physical Description
- A large stone carving occupies the center of the image. Above is rough-cut stone, indicating that the carving is part of a larger stone setting; below is a recess and darkness, indicating that the carving acts as a kind of decorative lintel above a cave entrance. The carving itself consists of eight square zones (or metopes) and within each is a decorative pattern of radial symetry (circles) or vegetative imagery.
- Subject Matter
- The frieze in the photograph is set at the entrance to a first century CE tomb in Jerusalem. Salzmann, who was trained as a painter and was friends with the Orientalist painter Eugene Fromentin, first become interested in archaeology in 1847 when the two painters traveled to Algeria. Salzmann around this time took up photography and was commissioned in 1854 by the French Ministry of Purlic instruction to photograph historical monuments--Roman and pre-Roman--in Jerusalem. His photographs were to be used to substantiate claims by the French archeologist Louis Caignart de Saulcy that there were many monuments that dated back to Biblical times.
- Secondary Keywords
- buildings and the land
- descriptors
- herbaceous plants
- image-making processes and techniques
- inorganic material
- intaglio printing processes
- landscapes (environments)
- materials
- materials by composition
- natural landscapes
- plants
- printing and printing processes and techniques
- printing processes
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- rock
- rock by form
- settlements and landscapes
- vegetation and vegetation components
- vegetation components
- woody plants
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 4681 x 3144
- File Size
- 914 KB
- Record
- 2014/2.104
- Link to this Item
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"Détails de la frise de la retraite des Apôtres, Valée de Hinnom, Jérusalem; Auguste Salzmann." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2014-sl-2.104/2014_2.104.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.
