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Portrait of Simcha Vaz (1582–1643), painted by her son, Moses Belmonte
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Simcha (Gimar) Belmonte (born Vaz; 1582–1643) was the wife of Jakob Israel Belmonte (a poet, writer, and trader). She and her husband were among the founders of the Jewish community in Amsterdam after…

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Moses Belmonte

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1642

Subjects:

Portrait, Women, Sephardic, Dress, Artists

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Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Portrait with circular border of seated older woman wearing wimple and stern expression and holding book in right hand, with Portuguese and Hebrew text below and around portrait.
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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…

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Unknown

Places:

Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)

Date:

1572

Subjects:

Women, Calendar, Dress

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of woman in profile wearing dress and hat and Hebrew writing on her left.