Tunisian-born artist Ofer Lellouche emigrated from France to Israel in 1966. He is best known for self-portraiture and landscapes, which appear in a variety of media, including painting, etching, sculpture, and performance art. Since the late 1990s, Lellouche has concentrated on sculpture and etching.
Leonore (Rachel) de Alvaro da Costa (1669–1749), the second wife of Don Francisco Lopes Suasso, was descended from a wealthy Portuguese New Christian family who fled the Iberian Peninsula and settled…
Gross was known for his wooden sculptures and his focus on the human figure. He first studied art on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when he came to the United States and he later taught there at the…
Fromet Guggenheim (1737–1812) was the eldest daughter of a merchant from Hamburg. She married the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn in 1762. Exceptional for the time, theirs was not an arranged marriage…