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Kiddushin and Wedding Ceremony
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723

Subjects:

Marriage, Ritual & observance, Ritual objects, Community, Cities

Categories:

Print & book culture
Two-panel drawing, the top of many people in interior room, some seated on right side under canopy, and the bottom of many people outside with a central figure with veil.
Jewish Wedding
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In this engraving from a Dutch translation of Leone Modena’s Historia de’ riti Ebraici (History of the Jewish Rites), a Jewish wedding in Amsterdam is pictured. Groom and bride stand under the huppah…

Contributor:

Jan Luyken

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1683

Subjects:

Marriage, Synagogue, Ritual & observance, Dress, Ethnography

Categories:

Print & book culture, Dress & Adornment
Print engraving of indoor scene with people standing around couple under large canopy with musicians in background.