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Fine Arts


Painting, Watercolour, Plastic Arts, Woodcuts, Etching, Drawing.



22 subcategories
Altars

ALTARS

Armours

ARMOURS

Book Illumination

BOOK ILLUMINATION

Carvings

CARVINGS

Ceramic

CERAMIC

Drawing

DRAWING

Enamel

ENAMEL

Engravings

ENGRAVINGS

Fresco and Wallpainting

FRESCO AND WALLPAINTING

Goldsmith Works

GOLDSMITH WORKS

Handicraft

HANDICRAFT

Jewelry

JEWELRY

Mosaics

MOSAICS

Painting

PAINTING

Plastic Arts

PLASTIC ARTS

Posters

POSTERS

Prints

PRINTS

Relief

RELIEF

Sculpture

SCULPTURE

Silverwork

SILVERWORK

Textile Works

TEXTILE WORKS

Watercolour

WATERCOLOUR

14,174 photos
The Fall of Goliath. Top: King Saul and his men of valour; bottom: David slays Goliath; four Philistine warriors mourn with raised arms, David's brothers look on (left); Goliath's helmet between them on the ground. Oil on glass painting, 59,5 x 49 cm
#30050451

The Fall of Goliath. Top: King Saul and his men of valour; bottom: David sl...

Mizrach ("East"),a decoration hung on the walls of a home or synagogue, to indicate the direction of prayer, i.e. facing east towards Jerusalem. From Poland, 1882. Between the two temple columns,a menorah and two Lions of Judah. Symmetrical paper cutout, 41 x 34 cm
#30050454

Mizrach ("East"),a decoration hung on the walls of a home or synagogue, to i...

Mizrach ("East"),a decoration hung on the walls of a home to indicate the direction of prayer, i.e.east towards Jerusalem. From Central Europe. Two Lions of Judah flank the central inscription "From this direc- tion comes the spirit of life". Paper, 16 x 14 cm
#30050455

Mizrach ("East"),a decoration hung on the walls of a home to indicate the dir...

Itinerarium, presenting the main pilgrimage sites of the Holy Land.From Jerusalem, after 1865. The two top registers show Jerusalem, the lower registers sites in Shechem,Safed,Tiberias and Hebron. Watercolour on paper, 64,5 x 47,4 cm
#30050456

Itinerarium, presenting the main pilgrimage sites of the Holy Land.From Je...

Memento Mori decoration, a reminder of the shortness of life and the importance of spiritual over material pleasures. From Germany or Poland. Two hunters with dogs shoot at two stags. Below, a five-branched menorah Paper cutout, ink and watercolour, 18,9 x 14,5 cm
#30050457

Memento Mori decoration, a reminder of the shortness of life and the importan...

Amulet, from Persia. This amulet was meant to protect mother and child during childbirth. The name of god, "shaddai", Almighty, with a crown is encircled by an invocation against Lilith, an ancient Assyrian female demon.Parchment,watercolour,powdered gold, 29 x28 cm
#30050460

Amulet, from Persia. This amulet was meant to protect mother and child during...

Painting from Safed,Palestine. The story of Abraham and Isaac,beginning in the lower register and ending with the angel halting the sacrifice. The inscription asks to remember "the binding of Isaac" on Rosh Hashanah, the New Year and a day of judgement.Watercolour,55x38
#30050510

Painting from Safed,Palestine. The story of Abraham and Isaac,beginning in the l...

Sukkah decoration: a man in period costume carries lulav and etrog (a palm branch and lemon) to the synagogue to celebrate Sukkot, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. From Buschwiller, France. Watercolour on paper, 45 x 28 cm
#30050513

Sukkah decoration: a man in period costume carries lulav and etrog (a palm...

Shiviti, a plaque placed on the wall of synagogue or home to indicate East, the direction of prayer. This shiviti is for Purim, the feast commemorating the salvation of the Persian Jews from oppression by Haman. From Persia, paper and watercolour, 43 x 35 cm
#30050520

Shiviti, a plaque placed on the wall of synagogue or home to indicate East, t...

Purim painting: A Chasidic rabbi on the right, from Eastern Europe, celebrates Purim with the Sephardic rabbi on the left and two Chasidim. From Safed, Israel. Painting on paper, 37 x 18 cm
#30050523

Purim painting: A Chasidic rabbi on the right, from Eastern Europe, celebrat...

Megillat Esther, the biblical Book Esther read during the Purim festival. Queen Esther gives birth to King Cyrus, one of the many local additions to the original. Judeo-Persian epic, written 1322 by a Jewish poet from Shiraz. Paper, 164 leaves, 24,5 x 18,5 cm
#30050526

Megillat Esther, the biblical Book Esther read during the Purim festival. Quee...

Queen Esther begs King Ahasver for clemency towards the Persian Jews. Page from a Megillat Esther, the biblical Book Esther, read during the Purim festival. Judeo- Persian manuscript (Persian written in Hebrew letters)
#30050527

Queen Esther begs King Ahasver for clemency towards the Persian Jews. Page from...