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9. The Esplanade of AL-AQSA Mosque in Jerusalem

Artist: Herman D.S.CORRODI, Italian, (1844 - 1905)
Execution date (approximate): 1876
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower left)
Measures: 127 x 75cm.
Description: In this masterpiece, Corrodi shows us the “ Sacred Fountain” in front of the
Mosque of Omar, in Jerusalem, (2nd. Most important place after Mecca). The Faithfull’s,
and believers washing before prayer; others praying on their carpet on the esplanade of
the Dome Mosque (on the right side of the painting), and, with part of the welling wall
on the left side. This painting of Corrodi was aquired by the German Káiser, or Emperor
William II of Germany, and King of Prussia, and added to the Collection Kunstchronik in
1892-1893, in Berlin.

Exhibitions
Royal Academy of Arts in London, in 1881, Dictionary of Contributors and their work from
its foundation in 1769 to 1904,Vol. II, p.170.
De Delacroix A Kandinsky; L’orientalisme En Europe.
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 15.10.2010 - 09.01.2011.
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München 28.01.2011 - 01.05.2011.
Musées des Beaux-Arts de Marseilles, 27.05.2011 - 28.08.2011.
(Reunion des Musées Nationaux de France, rmn)

Publications
• L’Orientalisme En Europe, De Delacroix A Kandinsky, p. 148.

Biography
Hermann David Salomon Corrodi was born in Frascati and lived for many years in Rome.
Corrodi studied at the Academy of St Luke under his father, Salomon Corrodi (1810–1892)
and in Paris (1872). He received commissions for history paintings from the British royal
family and was acquainted with most of the European royalty of the time, including a
friendship with Queen Victoria, and traveled widely in the Far East, including Egypt,
Syria, Cyprus and Istanbul, which provided the subject matter for many of his paintings.
He is the brother of Arnold Corrodi. Originally a landscape painter in the academic style,
much of his work is also typical of the Orientalist style of the 19th century. In 1893 he
was knighted as an Academic of Merit by the Academy of St Luke, where he had been
a professor. He died in Rome on 30 January 1905. Corrodi’s works can be found in the
Frye Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Dahesh Museum of Art in New York, Qatar National
Museum, and Museo di Roma in Trastevere.

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