De Vogue, Marie Eugenee Melchir, Vicomte

Le Temple de Jérusalem Monographie du Haram-Ech-Chérif suivie d'un essai sur la topographie de la Ville-Sainte, par le Cte. Melchior de Vogüé. Paris: Noblet & Baudry, 1864

Folio (441 x 314 mm). Half-title, ꦕ37 plates and maps, including 3 double-page and 11 handcolored, drawn by M. de Vo𓆉güé, E. Duthoit, and W.H. Waddington. Half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands in six compartments, marbled endpapers.

A rare and important archeological work related to the Aksa꧃ mosque

A rare and important archeological work surrounding the 19th-century survey of the Aksa mosque.

Born in Nice, Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé was a French diplomat, Orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist, philanthropist, and literary critic. He served in the Franco-Prussian War, and later as an ambassador in Constantinople ജin 1871 and in Vienna from 1875 to 1879.

In the second half of the 19th century, de Vogüé embarked on an extensive survey of the Temple Mount at Jerusalem෴. He was accompanied by archaeologist William H. Waddington, artist and architect E. Duthoit, and later Henri Sauvaire, the French Consul in Beirut, who joined as photograᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚpher. With the help of the French Consul in Jerusalem, de Vogüé was able to acquire permission from the Ottoman authorities to start his research at the mosque, where he examined structural details, including the stones and walls, and described his findings in this work. The appendix details the topography of Jerusalem, and the plates depict painted entablements, cupolas, stained glass windows, and other architectural details such as sculptured pilasters and capitals.

The importance of꧃ de Vogüé's work lies in the fact that he found remnants of ancient frescoes which were destroyed during a previous restoration. The different surveys of the mosque in the 19th century attest to the growing Western ℱinterests in the Holy Land.

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Tobler 187; Roehricht 2340