View of Jerusalem by Braun
and Hogenberg
(1575)
This view of Jerusalem by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg belongs
to the genus of views of Jerusalem which
portray the Holy City not as seen personally,
but by a mixture of imagination and
reliance on the Bible and other literary sources. Within the
nearly circular (and imaginary) city
walls some buildings, such as the Dome
of the Rock and the Holy
Sepulcher, are depicted quite realistically,
following e.g. Breydenbach's map.
Sources: Israeli
Foreign Ministry
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