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The Music Room of Fanny Hensel
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Fanny Hensel (1805–1847), the granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and financier Daniel Itzig, and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, was born in Hamburg into a wealthy…

Contributor:

Julius Helfft

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1849

Subjects:

Crafts, Art, Women, Music, Assimilation, Architecture, Painting

Categories:

Architecture, Painting
Painting of room featuring natural light, grand piano, and walls filled with pictures in gold frames.
Synagogue (Bechhofen, Germany)
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The Bechhofen Synagogue (built in 1685) is believed to have been the largest wooden synagogue in Germany. The interior of the synagogue was painted with lavish decorations in 1732 and 1733, in typical…

Contributor:

Eliezer Zusman of Brody

Places:

Bechhofen, Holy Roman Empire (Bechhofen, Germany)

Date:

1684

Subjects:

Synagogue, Painting, Artists, Aesthetics, Art, Architecture

Categories:

Painting, Architecture
Interior of building of back wall with decorative images on top, Hebrew text in the middle, and lattice below, platform with railing in left foreground, and several podiums along wall.