The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec

The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec
The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec
Artist	David Roberts
Year	1841
Type	Oil on panel, landscape painting
Dimensions	75.8 cm × 61.8 cm (29.8 in × 24.3 in)
Location	Royal Academy of Arts, London

ArtistDavid Roberts

Year1841

TypeOil on panel, landscape painting

Dimensions75.8 cm × 61.8 cm (29.8 in × 24.3 in)

The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec is an oil on canvas by the British artist David Roberts, from 1841.^[1]^[2] It depicts the ruined ancient Roman temple complex at the city of Baalbek in Lebanon. Roberts had visited the site in 1839 during his first tour of the Middle East.He added figures in local costume to help emphasise the grand scale of the buildings. ^[3]

The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1843 at the National Gallery in London. Roberts was elected a full member of the academy and presented this painting as his diploma work.^[4]

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v t e David Roberts
Paintings	The Departure of the Israelites (1829) The Porch of St Maclou, Rouen (1829) The Castle of Alcalá de Guadaíra (1833) The Torre del Oro (1833) Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada (1834) St Paul's Cathedral with the Lord Mayor's Procession (1836) Chapel of Ferdinand and Isabella, Granada (1838) A View in Cairo (1840) The Fountain on the Prado, Madrid (1841) A View of Toledo and the River Tagus (1841) The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec (1841) The Temple of Dendera (1841) The Gate of Metawaley (1843) Mont Saint Michel (1848) Interior of Saint-Gommaire, Lierre (1850) The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition (1852) The Piazza Navona at Rome (1857) Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1858) The Forum, Rome (1859) Ruins of the Roman Forum (1859)
Other	The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia Portrait of David Roberts (1840 painting)

The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec

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