Backward Glance: Divergent Visions of the Holy Land

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In 817, a young Englishman named Charles Barry, moved by the spirit of travel that was sweeping Europe after the havoc of the Napoleonic Wars, decided—against the advice of his family—to tour the great architectural sites of Europe. He had just completed six years of training as an architect with the firm of Middleton and Bailey of Lambeth, London, which he had paid for with part of the modest legacy of 250 pounds left him by his late father. The tour that Barry envisioned would undoubtedly consume the rest of his inheritance and, his family feared, leave him penniless. […]

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Footnotes

See Jodi Magness, “Illuminating Byzantine Jerusalem,” BAR 24:02.

Endnotes

Kathleen Adkins, Personal and Historic Extracts from the Travel Diaries (1817–1820) of Sir Charles Barry (Godalming, England: The Editor, 1986).

Mordechai Omer, J.M.W. Turner and the Romantic Vision of the Holy Land and the Bible (Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College/Charles S. and Isabella V. McMullen Museum of Art, 1996), p. 47.

John Ruskin, The Works of John Ruskin, ed. Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wendderburn (London: G. Allen, 1903–12), vol. 13, p. 447.

Omer, J.M.W. Turner, p. 42.