Jeremiah

I and the Village combines Marc Chagall’s memories of his childhood in Vitebsk with folklorist and abstract imagery to create what scholar H. W. Janson called a “cubist fairy tale.” The dreamlike…

In this photograph shot on a snowy day in New York City, icy bare branches on the staircase of a building dwarf the people and two skyscrapers, creating a composition in which diagonal lines and…

Alfred Wolmark painted Fisher Girl of Concarneau during a ten-week honeymoon in Concarneau, Brittany. He was fascinated by the town’s people and scenery. While in Concarneau, he painted several…

Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…

Between 1909 and 1915, Amedeo Modigliani created about twenty-five stone sculptures, using techniques he learned from the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. The sculptures were inspired by…

There have traditionally been two different interpretations of the biblical Song of Songs. It can be read as an erotic love poem or as a poem of yearning for the Land of Israel. Ze’ev Raban’s…