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Torah Ark Curtain
Siona Shimshi
1955–1965
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The Israeli painter, sculptor, ceramicist, and textile designer Siona Shimshi was born in Tel Aviv to a family that had migrated to Palestine from Lithuania. Shimshi studied at the Avni Institute from 1956 to 1959 and went on to study ceramics at Alfred University and, from 1959 to 1962, at Greenwich House Pottery in New York. While in Israel, in 1966 Shimshi helped found the art group Ten+. From 1979 to 1987, she chaired the Department of Ceramic Design at the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. Her ceramic sculptures are often figurative busts in which she emphasizes or manipulates discrete facial features to express complex ideas and narrative themes.
Song of Moses (Deuteronomy 32), Aleppo Codex, ca. 925 CE. The photo shows the beginning of the poem (Deuteronomy 32:1–14) and the prose verses from the end of the preceding chapter. The text of the…
This bulla, found near the Western Wall in Jerusalem in the remains of a seventh–sixth-century BCE building, depicts two men facing each other, each raising one hand toward the other with the other…
Nocturne was painted after Marcel Janco and his family moved to Palestine. Showing two men ministering to a mortally wounded soldier, surrounded by weeping, lamenting figures, the painting creates a…