A contemporary of the Impressionists, the late 19th-century society painter James ... Tissot, who visited the Holy Land on more than one occasion, created around 700 biblical scenes between ...

Collector gifts Hebrew U. 130,000 postcards showing Holy Land since ... of thousands of visitors and pilgrims dating back to the 19th Century. ... historical events, art, ...

The Scottish artist’s exotic renderings of Egypt and the Near East imprinted biblical landscapes on the 19th-century imagination ... most expensive publishing projects of the time. The Holy Land, ...