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35. A Patio in JERUSALEM

Artist: Herman D. S. CORRODI, Italian, (1844 - 1905)
Execution date (approximate): 1876
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower left)
Measures: 100 x 63.8 cm.
Description: Corrodi was much interested to Paint Holy Site in Jeruraselem, among others,
The Tomb of The Virgin Mary. A beautiful patio with many visitors in front of the Church
in which, is the Tomb of The Holy Virgin Mary, and in the far left side appears the Dome
of Al-Aqsa Mosque of Omar.

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.

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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