Translated title | “Come and Look”. Jewish and Christian Bible Illustrations in Old Times |
Editor & Curator |
Falk Wiesemann. |
Collection |
Gross Family Collection. |
Imprint |
Düsseldorf, Germany, 2002. 148 pp., illustrations: 22 col., 224 b&w, 29 × 22 cm. German, with one essay in English. |
ISBN |
3898611388 |
Location |
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (23 September–15 November 2002) |
Description |
A comparative study of biblical illustrations in Jewish and Christian art, in both books and ritual objects. Three essays on: Bible illustration in the 16th–19th C (Falk Wiesemann), the woodcuts of a Tsena u-Rena from Sulzbach 1796 (Marion Aptroot), and biblical illustrations on Judaica objects from the Gross Family Collection (William L. Gross). Detailed descriptive entries. 47 items. |
Description |
For an expanded version of this exhibition see #1748 (2003). |
main keywords |
BIBLICAL IMAGESCEREMONIAL OBJECTSCHRISTIAN ARTCHRISTIAN ART, INFLUENCE ON JEWISH ARTPRINTED BOOKSTSENA U-RENAWOODCUTS |
minor keywords |
AmuletsBesamimBiblesBook bindingsDamascene workHaggadotHebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th CJoseph ben David of Leipnik (scribe-artist)Merian BibleMicrographyPesach cupsPesach platesPesach towel coversPidyon ha-Ben platesScrolls of Esther, engraved bordersScrolls of Esther, woodcut illustrations |
Related ephemera |
Exhibition leaflet, 4 pp., 1 b&w illus., 21 × 10.5 cm; Exhibition leaflet for showing in Hohenems, 8 pp., 1 col., 1 b&w illus., 14.5 × 10.5 cm; Review of exhibition in the Rheinische Post. Düsseldorfer Stadtpost, 21 September 2002, Nr. 220, 2 col. illus. |
Other venues |
Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, Cologne, Germany (9 January–20 February 2003); Jüdisches Museum Hohenems, Austria (25 May–17 August 2003) |