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Leon Gimpel made improvements to the technology of the autochrome that shortened the exposure time needed for a color photograph to be taken. His color photographs are rare documents of everyday life…
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Léon Gimpel
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1909
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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…
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Amedeo Modigliani
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1911–1912
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This maḥzor (holiday prayer book) contains the festival prayers for the whole year, according to the rite of Carpentras, and was copied in Provence. The Jews of the former papal territory of Comtat…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, Papal States (Carpentras, France)
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1540/1
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This synagogue, located in Carpentras, in Provence, was built in 1367 but went through serious repairs and was remodeled between 1741 and 1744 by a local civil engineer Antoine D’Allemand, in the…
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Artist Unknown
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Carpentras, Kingdom of France (Carpentras, France)
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1741–1744
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A depiction of a Jew from Lorraine, engraved by Sébastien Leclerc in Paris. The antisemitic inscription, which alludes to the Jewish man having acquired wealth by deceptive means, is a rhymed couplet…
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Sébastien Leclerc
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1664
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Frenkel, whose work was shaped by the School of Paris (École de Paris), played a key role in bringing modernism to Israeli art. Among his students were prominent members of what is known as the Land…
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Yitshak Frenkel (Alexandre Frenkel-Frenel)
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1920
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Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…
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Tim (Louis Mitelberg)
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1967
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By the time she created this statue of David Ben-Gurion, the first prime minister of the State of Israel, Chana Orloff had moved away from the cubist style she favored early in her career to a more…
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Chana Orloff
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Paris, France
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1949
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This painting depicts the seventeenth-century physician William Harvey demonstrating his discovery of blood circulation, a seminal moment in the history of modern medicine. Harvey, personal physician…
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Paris, French Second Republic (Paris, France)
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1850
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Camille Pissarro painted landscapes that, unusually for the time, included industrial elements, like this sugar-beet factory near Pissarro’s home in Pontoise. Like other impressionist paintings, this…
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Third Republic (Paris, France)
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1873