Masada 135 x 90cm Large Bright Outdoors Detailed Desert Landscape by Jeremy Elkington

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Bright yellow, ochre and orange desert landscape featuring Masada. Light blue sky.

Jeremy Elkington
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Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This painting depicts the ancient fortress of Masada in Israel. The fortress itself is in the distance, near the centre of the work. Masada was the sight of the last stand of the Jewish Zealots known as the sicarii against the Roman 10th legion under the command of Lucius Flavius Silva. The roughly 960 Jews were all found dead, except for two women and three children, the morning after the Romans assaulted the walls of the fortress with a large battering ram affixed to an enormous tower. They had supposedly all committed suicide. The flaming stones and catapult stones in the foreground, as well as the scorpion bolts, represent the assault on the fortress by the Roman legion.
The rectangular structure/impression on the bottom left is of one of the many Roman military camps that were constructed around Masada.
This work was exhibited in the 2022 John Leslie Art Prize.
The canvas was custom-made and the wooden stretcher is strong at 33mm deep, also featuring a cross-bar on the back.
Ready to hang with strong wire/d-rings on the back.

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Professional Art Spectrum oils on custom-made canvas

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This artwork is currently stretched and ready to hang.

Nature Art, Landscape Art, Culture Art

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