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Four Biblical Scenes
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These four etchings were made by Rembrandt van Rijn for Menasseh Ben Israel’s book, Piedra Gloriosa (Glorious Stone), a messianic treatise. Clockwise from upper left, they illustrate the biblical…

Contributor:

Rembrandt van Rijn

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Print, Artists, Dreams, Angels, demons & deities, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Page of four pencil drawings: a half-naked man posing, an animal figure with wings underneath figure with halo, man and angels, and soldier fighting against smaller figure.
Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man)
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Die Erschaffung des Menschen (The Creation of Man) is an illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien for the 1902 German translation of the Yiddish poems of Morris Rosenfeld, Lieder des Ghetto (Songs of the…

Contributor:

Ephraim Moses Lilien

Places:

Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1902

Subjects:

Art, Bible, Ecology, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration of angels amongst flowers with shofar and biblical lyre.
Akedah Story
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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…

Contributor:

Moshe Mizrachi

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Art, Bible, Angels, demons & deities

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Illustration in three horizontal panels, with Hebrew text running along the border and labeling the illustrations, which include two figures, an angel, fire, and ram at top of page; donkey, trees, and several figures in the center; and two figures in front of a line of ten camels at the bottom.