Pillars of the Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Syria
date: label: Date
content: May 7-13, 1868
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Architecture and landscape study of the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Syria. Viewed obliquely at center, a colonnade of six Corinthian columns supporting an elaborate entablature remains as one of the only standing features of the ancient Roman Temple of Jupiter. The colonnade is supported by a wall of roughly-hewn rectangular stones. In the foreground and background, fallen stones and partial walls inhabit an otherwise green, though desolate landscape. A distant mountain range is faintly suggested along the horizon at left.
place: label: made in
content: Baalbek, Syria
label: place depicted
content: Baalbek, Syria
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-514
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil and graphite on paperboard
label: Dimensions
content: 45.6 × 32.6 cm (17 15/16 × 12 13/16 in.)