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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…

When Claude Cahun took this self-portrait photograph, she was still Lucy Renee Mathilde Schwob and had not yet adopted her new gender-neutral name. She is wearing a pinafore, sitting quietly at a desk…

In this cubist-influenced self-portrait, the artist has painted herself reflected in a mirror, perhaps a symbol of a divided self. The upturned vessels on the table communicate a sense of upheaval…

The woman depicted in Amazone is believed to be Natalie Clifford Barney (1876–1972), an American writer, lesbian, and feminist who hosted a literary salon in Paris. She was one of several women whom…

Wall Street is considered a seminal work in the history of photography, symbolic of a turn away from pictorialism and toward modernism. Photography would no longer seek to mimic academic painting but…

The soldier-artist Raphael Avraham Shalem used found objects, such as shell cases, as the material for his artworks. On this shell casing, he engraved a view of Rachel’s Tomb, a site revered by Jews…