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Funeral Activities
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

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Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723–1743

Subjects:

Life cycle, Mourning, Ritual & observance, Cemetery, Death

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Print & book culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top showing men in large room walking in circle with books, the bottom showing men shoveling dirt onto grave.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Cemetery, Gravestone
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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)

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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

First Half of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Mourning, Burial, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

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Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Tombstone with crest on top, and twin columns of text below.
The Jewish Cemetery at Ouderkerk
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The Jewish Cemetery at Ouderkerk is one of Jacob van Ruisdael’s better-known works. Purchased for use by the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish congregation in Amsterdam in 1641, the cemetery holds twenty…

Contributor:

Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1654/5

Subjects:

Painting, Ecology, Scholarship, Allegory, Cemetery, Gravestones & tombs

Categories:

Painting, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Painting of church ruins, stream, and graves beneath clouds.