The great building with the dome in the middle of the picture, is the Mosque of Omar, which occupies the supposed site of Solomon's Temple.
Some people have thought that perhaps Hubert van Eyck, and his brother John, actually went to the East.

Many men made pilgrimages in those days, and almost every year parties of Christian pilgrims went to Jerusalem.

It was a rough and even a dangerous journey, but not at all impossible for a patient traveller.

Dr.Hulin, who has made wonderful discoveries about the early Flemish painters, found a mention, in an old sixteenth-century list, of a 'Portrait of a Moorish King or Prince' by Van Eyck, painted in 1414 or perhaps 1418.

If he painted a portrait of an oriental prince, he may have visited one oriental country at least, or at any rate the south of Spain.