Caspar Luyken was a Dutch printmaker, known for his etchings, who learned the craft of book illustration from his father, Jan. Both of them worked mostly in Amsterdam. Between 1699 and 1705, Caspar worked in Nuremberg, Germany, where he collaborated with German print publisher and art dealer Christoph Weigel on the production of illustrated books.
Originating from the Iberian Peninsula, the de Pinto family were wealthy merchant bankers who lived in Amsterdam from the seventeenth century on. In Spain, members of the family had converted to…
502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
The mass mind is eminently retentive. Man, in Nietzsche’s definition, is the being with the longest memory, and José Ortega y Gasset has recently affirmed (in his Toward a Philosophy of History) the…