From In the Presence of the Holy See

Fig. 1.

Rembrandt’s Abraham’s Sacrifice (ca. 1635) with photograph of Israeli soldiers overwhelmed by the smell of dead bodies in Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, April 16, 2002, by Alexandra Boulat.

All compositions © The Palestinian Museum and reprinted by permission.

Fig. 2.

Caravaggio’s Crucifixion of Saint Peter (ca. 1601) with photograph of Palestinian peasants attacked by Israeli settlers during olive harvest season in Salfit, West Bank, October 25, 2006, by Alexandra Boulat.

Fig. 3.

Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo (ca. 1605) with photograph of Palestinians crossing Qalandiya checkpoint on their way to Jerusalem, April 20, 2002, by Alexandra Boulat.

Fig. 4.

Raphael’s The Deposition (ca. 1507) with photograph of Israeli soldiers killing a Palestinian and detaining others in downtown Ramallah. March 31, 2002, by Alexandra Boulat.

Fig. 5.

Murillo’s Christ Healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda (ca. 1670) with photograph of a Palestinian passing into Gaza via the Erez checkpoint, May 24, 2006, by Alexandra Boulat.

Fig. 6.

Caravaggio’s Conversion on the Way to Damascus (ca. 1601) with photograph of destruction in Beit Hanoun after the Israeli military operation, North of Gaza, November 14, 2006, by Alexandra Boulat.

Fig. 7.

Carraci’s Lamentation of Christ (ca. 1606) with photograph of the first lifting of the curfew in Jenin refugee camp after the Israeli raid, April 15, 2002, by Alexandra Boulat.

Fig. 8.

Juxtaposed photographs of Palestinian refugees walking across the Allenby Bridge on their way to Jordan, July 1967, by Myrtle Winter, photo archive of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), with a woman running terrified from her house in Bint Jbail during a “temporary cease fire” in South Lebanon during the 2006 war, by Tanya Habjouqa.

Fig. 9.

Juxtaposed photographs of Palestinian refugees walking across the Allenby Bridge on their way to Jordan, July 1967, UNRWA photo archive, with Jenin refugee camp after an Israeli raid, April 19, 2002, by Alexandra Boulat.

Fig. 10.

Juxtaposed photographs of a beach camp in Gaza Strip, 1993, after heavy rain has flooded many refugee shelters and caused great damage, by G. Nehmeh, UNRWA photo archive, with Israeli soldiers killing a Palestinian and detaining others, downtown Ramallah, March 31, 2002, by Alexandra Boulat.