It is known that the opening of the Suez Canal was not an ordinary event but rather a global event. On this day, November 16, the Suez Canal, which is a artificial water corridor, opened the double traffic in Egypt, with a length of 193.
3 km and connects between the Mediterranean and Red Bahrain, and it is divided longitudinally into two parts North and south of the bitter lakes, and crossed into two corridors in most of its parts to allow ships in two directions at the same time between Europe and Asia, and it is considered the fastest naval corridor between the two continents and provides about 15 days on average from the time of the trip through the Ras Al -Saleh Road
In commemoration of this great historical event, the plastic art documented this historical moment, and the plastic artist Mahmoud Saeed presented a painting on the opening of the Suez Canal that he drew in 1947 to commemorate the opening of the channel and in which Khedive Ismail and Emperor Franz Joseph with Empress Eugenie with the rest of the guests, the huge wall painting appeared in the material The oil is on a 4*2.
70 meter and is considered one of the most important holdings of the Museum of Modern Art.
The artist also created the painting of the Egyptian Abdel Hadi Al -Jazzar, and painted a painting on the Suez Canal dating back to 1965, created by the artist, and it was based on a mandate from the Maritime Museum in Alexandria, and in honor of thousands of workers who participated in digging the channel from 1859 to 1869, this was sold The painting is at the “Christiese” auction in Dubai for one million and twenty -three dollars.
The Austrian artist Albert Ziegler created an oil painting for the Suez Canal and was drawn in 1864, and the artist Ziegler is the student of the famous painter Josepey Re. His family is in Vienna, and his work was shown in many exhibitions in Munich and Paris, such as the Altentberg Museum and in the Frolavs Museum..
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