The Israel Museum acquired a painting of Jerusalem that had been lost for more than 300 years. The gift of Nicolas Poussin’s “The Destruction and Sack of the Temple of Jerusalem,” which depicts the Roman destruction of the city in 70 C.E., was made possible with a grant from the Rothschild Foundation in honor of the recently deceased Jewish intellectual Isaiah Berlin.
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