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This Persian carpet, manufactured between 1600 and 1630, was later used for a reader’s desk and desk cover in the Portuguese Synagogue in The Hague, Netherlands.
Contributor:
Artist Unknown
Places:
The Hague, Dutch Republic (The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1600–1726
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Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
The Hague, Dutch Republic (The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1730s–1740s
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In this engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites), a Jewish wedding in Amsterdam is pictured. Groom and bride stand under the huppah…
Contributor:
Jan Luyken
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1683