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This sculpture of Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) was created by Tassaert, a distinguished sculptor of the day. Mendelssohn sat for him, and copies of the bust were later made for Mendelssohn’s closest…
Contributor:
Jean Pierre Antoine Tassaert
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1785
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This bronze plaque, one of the many decorative art objects produced in the workshops of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, depicts the biblical prophet Jeremiah, whose name is…
Contributor:
Boris Schatz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911
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Baruch Spinoza, the Portuguese-Jewish philosopher considered one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period, served as a “countercultural” icon for many Jewish artists and intellectuals…
Contributor:
Mark Antokolski
Places:
Paris, France
Date:
1882