Tunisian-born artist Ofer Lellouche emigrated from France to Israel in 1966. He is best known for self-portraiture and landscapes, which appear in a variety of media, including painting, etching, sculpture, and performance art. Since the late 1990s, Lellouche has concentrated on sculpture and etching.
The caption on the top image reads: The binding of Isaac [is] today; remember his seed with mercy. The top labels, right to left: Abraham; Isaac; angel; fire; ram. The caption in the middle picture…
Don Francisco (Abraham Israel) Lopes Suasso (ca. 1657–1710), a prominent financier of Portuguese Jewish heritage, had ten children with his second wife, Leonora (Rachel) da Costa (1669–1749). This…
Natan Altman’s portrait of Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) is his best-known work. He painted the famous poet in St. Petersburg in a cubist style, against a background of blue quartzlike and green…