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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…
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Artist Unknown
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Date:
Early 16th Century
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This illustration of an armillary sphere is from a treatise on astronomy, Sefer mareh ha-ofanim (The Appearance of the Heavenly Beings), by Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor. The treatise was mostly a…
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Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1576
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This illustration of the (Aristotelian) cosmos appears in an eighteenth-century manuscript of Neḥmad ve-na‘im (Nice and Pleasant), David Ganz’s posthumously published book on astronomy.
Contributor:
David Ganz
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
Date:
18th Century