The Cyclorama of Jerusalem is located in

Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré () is a town in La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, along the Saint Lawrence River, north-east of Quebec City. The population was 2,803 according to the Canada 2006 Census. Major religious ...

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

, near the

Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré () is a basilica set along the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, east of Quebec City, and one of the six national shrines of Canada. It has been credited by the Catholic Church with many miracles of c ...

. It is a

cyclorama A cyclorama is a panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform, designed to give viewers standing in the middle of the cylinder a 360° view, and also a building designed to show a panoramic image. The intended effect is to make view ...

, a circular painting, of the Crucifixion of

Jesus Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament, other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader. He is the Jesus in Chris ...

, showing what the city of

Jerusalem Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...

might have looked like at the time of his death.

History

The cyclorama has been on display since 1895. It was painted by

Paul Philippoteaux Paul Dominique Philippoteaux (27 January 1846 – 28 June 1923) was a French artist. He is best known for a cyclorama illustrating the Battle of Gettysburg. Life and career Paul Philippoteaux was born in Paris, the son of the French artist ...

, the panoramist from Paris, assisted by five other painters: Salvador Mège (1854–1915) and Ernest Gros, of Paris, Charles Abel Corwin and

Oliver Dennett Grover Oliver Dennett Grover (1861 Earlville, Illinois – 1927 Chicago), was an American landscape and mural painter, the son of lawyer Alonzo Jackson Grover. Early life Grover's family moved to Chicago early in his life. There he spent much of his t ...

, of Chicago and Edward James Austen (1850–1930), of London. The Cyclorama is one of the world's largest. It measures . Among the scenes are: The South section of Jerusalem and the Tomb of Absalom. The Cyclorama was declared as a ''bien patrimonial'' (heritage property/item) by the government of Quebec in August 2017. The family that owned the Cyclorama had been trying to sell it; the designation doesn't prevent the sale but gives the government the right of first refusal in the event of a sale. The Cyclorama closed its doors in October 2018 after 123 years in operation, having not found a buyer. The diorama and building housing it remained on sale at that time, pending new owners to move or reopen it.

In popular culture

The Cyclorama appears in the 2022 film '' You Can Live Forever''.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://cyclorama.quebec/en/

Quebec art 1895 establishments in Quebec