Mediated images of the Holy Land confirmed Christian superiority to Americans

Evidence

Once there, he was quite shocked to find the reality to be quite different from what he had been imagining. His was perhaps the same kind of disappointment that had compelled the Tirolean crèche maker Franz Pernlochner the Senior (1847–95) to construct his work without any reference to the Orient, after he had been to Jerusalem to seek models for his art. Čeloud, however, preferred to solve the cognitive dissonance between orientalist fantasy and a visitor’s reality in favor of the fantasy. He went on working as before, making orientalist references to the Doré tradition rather than to what he himself had seen. He grumbled, for example, that there were too many black sheep in Palestine, and decided to stick to making white ones. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 200 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mediated images of the Holy Land reinforced Christian supremacy beliefs; The Holy Land was primarily imagined as a Christian land by orientalist art; Orientalist artists often preferred inherited fantasy to firsthand observation of the actual Holy Land — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 200 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Holy Land was primarily imagined as a Christian land by orientalist art #corroborates (0.82)
• Orientalist artists often preferred inherited fantasy to firsthand observation of the actual Holy Land #qualifies (0.78) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 200
• Syrian immigrants argued Christianity and Holy Land ancestry to win US citizenship #contradicts (0.72)