The work of Israeli artist Maya Cohen Levy includes paintings, sculptures, installations, and book projects. She studied calligraphy in Japan and China and has also turned to Islamic art for inspiration. Her work has been the subject of group shows as well as solo exhibitions in Israel and Germany. Cohen Levy received the Israel Culture and Education Ministry Award (2005). She lives in Tel Aviv.
The wooden synagogue in Jabłonów was built in the second half of the seventeenth century. Its walls were covered in colorful paintings. It was burned down at the beginning of World War I by Russian…
Song without Words, painted in Jaffa ca. 1911–1913. Like many of Jan’s works, this painting is suffused with poetic and atmospheric symbolism. Here, a beautiful young woman with haunted eyes holds a…
Numerous figurines of horses, sometimes including a rider, have been found. Most have traces of paint; it is likely that they were all originally painted. The paint sometimes depicts the horse’s…