Kabbalah
There is no title, It's a story
Dedicated to Helena Hayim de Vries
Art & Kabbalah, Contemporary Responses to an Ancient Tradition
Jewish Museum of Australia, Melbourne, 23 March - 28 May 2000
A selection of the 21 portraits of kabbalists and tzadikim (righteous ones) from Jewish history, is located below. Painted from 1994 - 2000. Material: oil on old baltic pine, each 840 x 680 x 20cm
Artistic statement : Art & Kabbalah catalogue cover statement cv
For a larger image, click on the thumbnails below, approx 45 seconds to download |
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| Rabbi
Yosef Caro "Beit Yosef" 1488-1575 |
Rabbi Yaakov
Ben Asher "Baal Ha-Turim" 1270-1341 |
Rabbi Isaac Abouhav "Menorat Ha-Maor" 1453-1519 |
Rabbi Schlomo
Yitzchaki "Rashi" 1040-1105 |
Rabbi Yaakov
Ben Meir "Rabbeinutam" 1100-1171 |
Rabbi Moshe Ben
Nachman "The Ramban" 1195 - 1270 |
Rabbi Don Isaac
Abarbanel 1438 - 1508 |
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| Rabbi
David Shlomo Halevi "The Taz" 1586 - 1667 |
Rabbi
Mosh Ben Maimon "The Ramban" 1135 - 1204 |
Rabbi
Hacham Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad "Ben Ish Hai" 1833 - 1909 |
Exhibition, Jewish
Museum of Australia 2000 |
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of Australia, PICA 1996 |