The Holy Land: Yesterday and Today

by Fabio Bourbon, Antonio Attini (Photographer), David Roberts (Contributor)

During the first months of 1839, David Roberts toured the Sinai Peninsula, Petra, Jerusalem, Palestine, the coasts of Lebanon, and Baalbec, returning to England to produce a series of moving and delightful lithographs detailing the region’s splendors. As with the companion volume, Yesterday and Today, this oversized, full-color volume contains the original plates of the first edition, arranged for the first time in chronological order, with commentary and extracts from Roberts’ journal. Each illustration by Roberts, moreover, is paired with a photograph that depicts the same subject and setting more than a century and a half later. The Holy Land offers an unforgettable taste of Roberts’ technical and artistic virtuosity. This is a stirring form of time travel, in search of new, yet ancient, discoveries in one of the most fascinating regions on the face of our planet.

Genres: Art, Travel, Nonfiction, Architecture, History

272 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1996

About the author

Fabio Bourbon è uno scrittore di formazione classica, specializzatosi nella divulgazione della storia delle civiltà del passato e dell’arte antica.

Reviews

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

David Robert's art gets 10 stars from me! It's just gorgeous! Incredible that he toured the Holy Land area and drew so many wonderful pieces. There are 120 of them in this book! Each with a two page spread. This book as whole gets 4 stars though because of the typos. There is even a paper put in the front after it was published that lists some of the errors. And they list Jesus's birth place as both Bethlehem AND Nazareth.

[Filip · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful lithographs with pieces of a journal from a bygone era, giving a wonderful glimpse to a world that passed.