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Gravestone of Mordechai Franco Mendes and His Wife Sara Franco Mendes
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This gravestone in the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands (est. 1614), that of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, is inscribed in memory of Mordechai Franco Mendes (d…

Places:

Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Dutch Republic (Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)

Date:

1687 and 1696

Subjects:

Cemetery, Death, Marriage, Sephardic, Dreams

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Tombstone flat on ground of panels of scenes with figures and animals above and below arch-enclosed Hebrew inscription.
Four Biblical Scenes
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These four etchings were made by Rembrandt van Rijn for Menasseh Ben Israel’s book, Piedra Gloriosa (Glorious Stone), a messianic treatise. Clockwise from upper left, they illustrate the biblical…

Contributor:

Rembrandt van Rijn

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1655

Subjects:

Print, Artists, Dreams, Angels, demons & deities, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Page of four pencil drawings: a half-naked man posing, an animal figure with wings underneath figure with halo, man and angels, and soldier fighting against smaller figure.