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20 ❯❯ Top 10 Israel and Petra Highlights

Exhibits in the Israel Museum

Herodian Royal
1 Key to Floorplan 9 6
Bathhouse
(1st century BC) Upper Level
Lower Level
This reconstructed hot room
from Herod’s palace at Herodion is
decorated with colorful frescos, tiles, 1
and mosaic floors. Raised on pillars
and with earthenware piping built
into the walls to provide heating, it 0
was the latest in Roman technology.
4 5 7 2
Kapoor’s Turning the
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World Upside Down,
Jerusalem (2010)
Anish Kapoor’s stainless-steel
sculpture crowns the museum’s
highest point. Standing 16 ft (5 m)
high, its polished mirror-like surfaces
capture and reverse reflections of the
sky and surrounding landscape.
Byzantine Synagogue
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and Church
Early Christian and Jewish houses of
prayer dating from the 4th to the 7th
centuries AD are contrasted in this
installation. The synagogue bima
(chancel) is from Susiya while the
church bima comprises marble and
stone elements from 17 churches.
Jeanne Hébuterne, Seated Leopard Head Hip Mask
Modigliani’s Jeanne
(17th century)
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Hébuterne, Seated
From Benin in Africa, this pendant
(1918) was worn by high-ranking officials
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani’s on their left hip, under a scabbard
portrait of his pregnant mistress is or sword. The mask is cast in brass
a classic example of his idealized and punched with copper studs.
style – using flowing lines
Rembrandt’s
to define her flat oval face, 6
long neck, and almond St. Peter in
eyes. When Modigliani Prison (1631)
died suddenly at the This painting of St. Peter
age of 36, a despairing demonstrates Rembrandt’s
Jeanne killed herself genius for expressing spiritual
during her ninth month qualities through the contrast
of pregnancy. Above the of light and shadow. The
portrait is displayed saint sits in a radiant pool of
a Congolese mask, light, his humanity apparent in
highlighting the influence his lined face and fisherman’s
of African art on the Leopard Head hands, while large parts of the
Italian artist. Hip Mask canvas remain in darkness.

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