Historical · Acts 11:19–26, Acts 13:1–3 · Antioch, now Antakya, Türkiye
Golden-Hour Vista of Ancient Antioch
Antioch spreads along its river beneath great limestone cliffs, with travellers on the road below.
View full size The engraving shows the city from the south-west, at the foot of a great cliffed mountain. The colour interpretation follows it closely, keeping the towering rock faces, the fortress on the heights, the riders and walkers on the road and the figures resting in the foreground, and adds a golden sunset and warm light on the stone. Antioch stood on the River Orontes beneath Mount Silpius.
Antioch was one of the great cities of the Roman East. In the Acts of the Apostles it is where the disciples were first called Christians, and the church there sent Barnabas and Saul (Paul) out on their first missionary journey.
This is an artistic interpretation of the engraved view, not a geographically exact reconstruction of the place.
- Historical source
- Acts 11:19–26, Acts 13:1–3
- Place
- Antioch, now Antakya, Türkiye
- Original engraving
- Antioch in Syria, from the South West
- Original artist
- H. Warren, from a sketch by Capt. Byam Martin, R.N.
- Engraver
- W. Miller
- From
- The Comprehensive Family Bible, Blackie & Son
- Canvas format
- Landscape · 3:2
THEN AND NOW
Two centuries
of image-making.
The original engraving, photographed from the family Bible, beside the contemporary colour interpretation it inspired.
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BRING IT HOME
A canvas
for your wall.
Each artwork is printed to order in Australia as a large-format canvas, at its own proportions. Nothing is cropped to fit a standard frame.
- Format
- Landscape · 3:2
- Artwork
- BIB-ART-010
SIZE
FINISH
An 8 mm frame with a 12 mm gap around the canvas.
FLOATING FRAME
- This canvas
- $595.00
- You pay
- $595.00
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Contemporary AI-assisted artwork inspired by an original nineteenth-century engraving from The Comprehensive Family Bible, published by Blackie & Son.