A new exhibit showcasing the beauty of the Middle East is coming to Manitowoc.
The Rahr-West Art Museum will be hosting “Antiquity Unveiled: David Roberts’ Artistic Expedition 1838-1839” beginning April 12th.
Roberts was a self-taught painter who rose from the depths of poverty and obscurity in Edinburgh, Scotland, to become one of the most celebrated artists and travelers of his generation, a member of the Royal Academy, and an artist whose work can be found in some of the most distinguished public and private collections in Europe and America.
A highly ambitious and motivated artist who loved to travel, he is best known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a travelogue illustrated with 247 hand-colored and tinted lithographs of Egypt and the Holy Land that he produced with lithographer Louis Haghe from sketches he made during a nine-month trip to the region in 1838-39.
Roberts’s exquisitely rendered prints of the architecture and topography of the Middle East, as well as the prints of Moorish Spain that he made on a trip there a decade earlier, firmly established him as an important Orientalist painter and the most accomplished architectural and topographical painter of his day.
Antiquity Unveiled will be on display through August 2nd.
