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Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy.Born in Pittsburgh, Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was brought up in Oakland, California. She graduated from Radcliffe College in…
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Photographer Unknown
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Venice, Kingdom of Italy (Venice, Italy)
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1908
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Solomon Molkho, the sixteenth-century messianic pretender, included a sketch of his own fanciful flag in his signature. His flag, modeled after those of the Maccabees, included the Hebrew word “Macabi…
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Solomon Molkho
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Early 16th Century
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Maurycy Gottlieb saw his art as essential to his universalist vision, namely, as a way to improve Polish-Jewish relations. As he said, “I am a Jew and a Pole and, God willing, I want to serve both.”…
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Maurycy Gottlieb
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
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1878–1879
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When Vittorio Matteo Corcos painted this portrait of Elena Vecchi, depictions of modern and confident young women were not uncommon in literature but were still rare in the visual arts. This painting…
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Vittorio Matteo Corcos
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1896