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Artistic Masterwork
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Arnold Böcklin is dead—yet who among you knew that he lived? If I were to tell you that he was the man who knew how, with paintbrush dipped in colors upon a piece of canvas, to shake every heart…

Contributor:

David Frishman

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1901

Subjects:

Death, Painting, Artists, Memorial, Scholarship

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Gravestone of Abraham Cohen Pimentel
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This gravestone is inscribed in memory of Abraham Cohen Pimentel, who served as rabbi of the Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga) in Amsterdam, and also as hakham in the Hamburg synagogue. A student of Saul…

Places:

Altona, Habsburg Empire (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1697

Subjects:

Cemetery, Death, Rabbis, Scholarship, Priest/priesthood

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Tombstone in the shape of a triangular prism with carving of open book on short end with Hebrew and Portuguese inscriptions and decoration along length of stone.