Construction of the temple of jerusalem flavius josephus, judaic antiquities, illumination by jean fouquet, circa 1470-1475 paris, bnf, department of manuscripts, french 247, fol. 163 (book viii). On the right, a worker, helped by two clerks carrying water, prepares the mortar. In the center in the foreground the stone masons work: two rough out the blocks with sledgehammers, two work with a chisel, one digging a mortise, the other sculpting a block, alongside a companion completing a molding using his pick. An image maker has placed a hammer, chisel and gouge near him to take, using a compass, a measurement of the statue he is sketching. A helper painfully lifts a column drum ready for installation. Two porters carry a stone on a stretcher. Workers, baskets on their backs or buckets on their shoulders, enter and leave the temple through the two-entrance gates, bringing the equipment necessary for the work in the work. On a scaffolding, along the right facade between the rosettes, we can see the silhouettes of painters finishing the golden covering. Date: circa 1470. Dimensions: 43 × 29 cm (16.9 × 11.4 in) (full folio). Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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