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Rubin was a member of what is known as the Land of Israel movement, a group of artists who, in the 1920s, broke with the conventions of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts. They drew on the ideas…
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Reuven Rubin
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1923
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Depicted in a relief from Sennacherib’s Palace in Nineveh, these musicians, followed by an Assyrian soldier, hold stringed instruments against their chests, plucking the strings as they walk. Dressed…
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Nineveh, Land of Israel
(Mosul, Iraq)
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Early 7th Century BCE
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Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831. One of the first grand operas, it caused a sensation when it debuted at the Paris…
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
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1831
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On this ceramic double pipe from Tel Malhata, the musician uses one hand on each pipe to control pitch. Usually women played the double pipe, but in this case, it is a man. This double pipe is…
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Tel Malḥata, Land of Israel
(Tel Malḥata, Israel)
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Iron Age II, 7th Century BCE
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This detail appears on the right side of a pithos (storage jar) from Kuntillet Ajrud. The seated figure plays a lyre held away from the body. There seem to be four strings, oriented vertically…
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Kuntillet Ajrud, Land of Israel
(Kuntillat Jurayyah, Egypt)
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Iron Age II, Late 9th–Early 8th Century BCE
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669–627 BCE
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Aron de Chavez
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1689
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Cornelis de Bruyn
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Paris, Kingdom of France
(Paris, France)
Date:
1714
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This scroll of Esther from Germany, created for use on the holiday of Purim, is extensively decorated, with illustrations of biblical scenes from the Esther story, as well as various flora and fauna…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1630
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Maurycy Trębacz
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1900