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Portrait of Daniel Levi de Barrios and his family
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This phantasmagoric portrait of poet and playwright Daniel Levi (Miguel) de Barrios and his family is from Imperio de Dios en la harmonia del mundo (God’s Empire in the Harmony of the World), a…

Contributor:

Aron de Chavez

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1689

Subjects:

Portrait, Family, Angels, demons & deities, Music

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print portrait of seated figure with a dragon under his feet and an angel above him, next to an armed figure standing and holding a flag, and a boy pointing to the angel, with Spanish text around the edge and in several places in the scene.
De Pinto Psalter
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This decorated psalter was made for Aaron de Joseph de Pinto, a member of the prominent Portuguese Jewish family in Amsterdam. It is a manuscript, copied from a print edition done by David de Castro…

Contributor:

Meir Cohen Belinfante, Isaac Siprut

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1728

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Prayer & liturgy, Sephardic, Jewish languages

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Manuscript page of Hebrew text in center framed with decorations and figures and scenes including two cherubs holding a crown at top, a king holding a harp, and a man holding censer, both with crowns above their heads, and figures at bottom.
Latin-Hebrew Edition of the Mishnah
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This page comes from the first of six volumes of Guilielmus Surenhuys’s translation of the Mishnah into Latin, printed in Amsterdam. At center is a depiction of Moses and Aaron standing beside a…

Contributor:

Willem Surenhuys

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1698

Subjects:

Print, Oral Torah, Translation, Language & linguistics, Christian-Jewish relations

Categories:

Print & book culture, Cartooning & graphic art
Print with central rectangular scene of men at podium surrounded by ten circles with images of figures and animals, and scene at bottom of large crowd outside city.
The Coat of Arms of Lopez and Suaço
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In the seventeenth century, members of the Suasso (Suaço, Suasco) family, bankers originally from Spain, lived in Holland and England. Antonio (Isaac) Lopez Suasso resided in The Hague during the…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1676

Subjects:

Class, Jewish identity, Profession, Family, Economic life

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art
Drawing of coat of arms of two lions and ten leaves on the right and two dog-like animals on left.