Sepia photograph of ruined stone walls with arched niches and large blocks at Baalbek, with rubble in the foreground.

Baalbek Ruins: Hemicycle of the Enclosure of the Temples of the Sun and Jupiter, Syria

A salted paper print showing a ruined stone exedra at Baalbek, with massive dressed blocks, arched niches and recessed openings rising above rubble and debris. Broken masonry crowns the wall, and a dark ground in the foreground is strewn with fallen fragments under a pale sky.

Artist: Maxime Du Camp
Date: 1849/51, printed 1852
Medium: Salted paper print, plate 120 from the album "Egypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie" (1852)
Source: Art Institute of Chicago
Size: 1686 × 2238 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, Photography Gallery Fund

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Baalbek Ruins: Hemicycle of the Enclosure of the Temples of the Sun and Jupiter, Syria

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