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David’s Room
Jenifer Bar Lev
1992
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American-born artist Jenifer Bar Lev immigrated to Israel in 1976 and lives in Tel Aviv. She is known for her mixed media works that often incorporate textiles. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions in Israel, Europe, and the United States, and has been the subject of more than a dozen solo exhibitions in Israel.
Mah Tovu notes our coming into the house of God, symbolized by the words “tents” and “tabernacles.” Mah Tovu begins with a passage from the Torah (Num. 24), in which the pagan prophet Balaam blesses…
In this baroque Christian altarpiece that Anton Raphael Mengs painted for the Catholic church, the Colegiata of Castrojeriz, which is near Burgos, Spain, the Madonna is holding an open book. The angel…
This caricature of Napoleon III (1808–1873), the last monarch of France, was made after the defeat of France in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), when Napoleon was being held in captivity in…