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Rabbi Abraham Bloch was a French army chaplain, killed in 1914 while holding a crucifix for a dying Catholic soldier. In 1934 the French government erected a monument in his memory at the spot where…
Contributor:
Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer
Places:
Algiers, French Algeria (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1917
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Early in his career, Jacob Meyer de Haan (also known as Isaac Meyer de Haan) was known for his Jewish genre paintings. In this one, painted in 1880 while de Haan still resided in the Netherlands, a…
Contributor:
Jacob Meyer de Haan
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1889–1892
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This painting depicts the seventeenth-century physician William Harvey demonstrating his discovery of blood circulation, a seminal moment in the history of modern medicine. Harvey, personal physician…
Contributor:
Benjamin-Eugène Fichel
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1850