The Holy Land in Old Prints and Maps
| Reference: | S0060 |
| Author | Zev VILNAY |
€25.00
| Reference: | S0060 |
| Author | Zev VILNAY |
€25.00
Description
From the dawn of the civilization the sites of the Holy Land have been the subject of a pictorial art whitch can be traced on the earliest monuments of human culture. This not unmitigated advantage was due to its strategic situation as a buffer-State between the two great power which contented for supremacy over the ancient world, Egypt and Assyria.
The volume tells the story of the Holy Land through the evolution of its iconographic representations: Towns of the Holy Land on Egyptian and Assyrian Monuments; Designs of Towns upon Ancient Mosaics; Views in the Writings of Christian Pilgrims; The Holy Land in Ancient Christian Maps; Illustrations in Hebrew Manuscripts and Prints.
English language, hardcover with dust wrapper, 222 pages with illustrations, 1963.
Author: Zev Vilnay
Published by: Rubin Mass
ISBN: 113579233X
Zev VILNAY (12 giugno 1900, Chișinău, Moldavia - 21 gennaio 1988, Gerusalemme)
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Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.
Zev Vilnay was born as Volf Vilensky in Kishinev, Russian Empire (now in Moldova). He immigrated to Palestine with his parents at the age of six and grew up in Haifa. He served as a military topographer in the Haganah, and later in the Israel Defense Forces.
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Zev VILNAY (12 giugno 1900, Chișinău, Moldavia - 21 gennaio 1988, Gerusalemme)
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Israeli geographer, author and lecturer.
Zev Vilnay was born as Volf Vilensky in Kishinev, Russian Empire (now in Moldova). He immigrated to Palestine with his parents at the age of six and grew up in Haifa. He served as a military topographer in the Haganah, and later in the Israel Defense Forces.
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