ISRAEL 1950s WESTERN WALL OLD CITY JERUSALEM JEWISH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING

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ISRAEL 1950s WESTERN WALL OLD CITY JERUSALEM JEWISH IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING:
$190.00

WESTERN WALL, ISRAELI PAINTING, OIL ON CANVASThis gorgeous painting depicts several Orthodox Jews praying at the Western Wall at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Painted with beautiful, bold color and fantastic composition. Imbued with the spiritual energy of the holiest site in Judaism, this piece exudes authentic emotional weight. Featuring bold impasto and full of character, this piece is a magnificent example of Israeli art. Signed lower right and inscribed lower left, unstretched.

The Western Wall or Kotel is located in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is a relatively small western segment of the walls surrounding the area called the Temple Mount (or Har Habayit) by Jews, Christians and most Western sources, and known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary (Al-Haram ash-Sharīf).

The term Western Wall with its variations is mostly used in a narrow sense for the section traditionally used by Jews for prayer and also known, mainly in the past, as the \"Wailing Wall\", but in a larger sense it refers to the entire 488 meter-long retaining wall on the western side of the Temple Mount. The classic portion now faces a large plaza in the Jewish Quarter, near the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount, while the rest of the wall is concealed behind structures in the Muslim Quarter, with the small exception of a 25ft (8m) section, the so-called Little Western Wall.

The wall has been a site for Jewish prayer and pilgrimage for centuries; the earliest source mentioning Jewish attachment to the site dates back to the 4th century. From the mid-19th century onwards, attempts to purchase rights to the wall and its immediate area were made by various Jews, but none was successful. With the rise of the Zionist movement in the early 20th century, the wall became a source of friction between the Jewish and Muslim communities, the latter being worried that the wall was being used to further Jewish nationalistic claims to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem. Outbreaks of violence at the foot of the wall became commonplace and an international commission was convened in 1930 to determine the rights and claims of Muslims and Jews in connection with the wall. After the 1948 Arab-Israeli War the wall came under Jordanian control and Jews were barred from the site for 19 years until Israel captured the Old City in 1967 and three days later bulldozed the adjacent 770-year old Moroccan Quarter.

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