Yaacov Dorchin is one of Israel’s most influential sculptors. Working for most of his career in his studio at Kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh, he played a leading role in introducing Israeli artists to the use of local materials, including iron. Since 1991, he has taught in the art department at Haifa University. In 2007, he was awarded the Emet Prize for Art, Science, and Culture.
Art today is the only thing constructed, an end in itself, about which no more need be said, such richness vitality meaning wisdom: to understand to see.
To describe a flower—poetry…
This pitcher from Nuremberg, Germany, was made around 1650. Cast in silver, the repoussé piece is finely traced and engraved with floral patterns. On its lid sits a shield engraved with a Hebrew…
This Haggadah from Venice was commissioned by Moses ben Gerson Parenzo, the last of the Parenzo Hebrew printers, and issued at the Caleoni press on behalf of the Bragadini family. This page shows the…