Portrait of Samson Wertheimer

From May through August 1541, the forces of the Ottoman Empire laid siege to the city of Buda (present day Budapest, Hungary) and captured it, ushering in 150 years of Ottoman rule. This illustration…

The Arrest of the Deserter depicts a scene from an 1844 comedy, Dominique the Deserter, set in the seventeenth century. Rebecca Solomon painted domestic scenes and scenes of modern Victorian life, but…

Ze’ev Raban painted this portrait of his wife, Miriam, in 1914, the same year they got married and he became head of the repoussé department at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. His…