# Dedication of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PLATZER, Johann Georg]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on copper, 64 x 96 cm ## Commentary The relatively large pair of paintings on copper, the Dedication of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem and the Destruction by Titus of the Temple of Herod in Jerusalem may well be considered Johann Georg Platzer's masterpiece and greatest artistic achievement. In them the artist makes plain his extraordinary skill and dexterity in creating complicated yet minutely rendered compositions on copper. ## Related artworks - [Abraham Receiving the Three Angels]() - [Allegory of Five Senses]() - [Allegory of Love]() - [Allegory of Love]() - [Destruction by Titus of the Temple of Herod in Jerusalem]() - [Miraculous Catch of Fish]() - [The Artist's Studio]() - [The Artist's Studio]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()