Jewish Art. Volumes Twelve-Thirteen. 1986/87. For Bezalel Narkiss on his sixtieth birthday.
Jerusalem: Center for Jewish Art of The Hebrew University, 1987. Softbound. Small quarto in dust jacket, 372 pp., mostly b/w and color illustrations, Calendar of events, Recent publications, contributors to this issue, The Center for Jewish Art. Housed in an illustrated paper covered slipcase. Very Good. Item #72440
Editor's note by Cohen-Mushlin. Articles are "Notes on Some Illustrated Byzantine Psalters," Hugo Buchthal, "Paleographical Identification of Hebrew Manuscripts: Methodology and Practice," Malachi Beit-Arie, "Filegree Ornaments in Fourteenth-Century Hebrew Manuscripts of the Upper Rhine," Gabrielle Sed-Rajna, "The Schocken Italian Haggadah of c. 1400 and its Origins," Yael Zirlin, "The Origins of the Siddur of the Rabbi of Ruzhin," Iris Fischof, "Zwei Tierszene am Ende der Ersten Kennicott-Bibel (La Coruña, 1476), in Oxford," Ursula Schubert, "The Illustrations in Abraham Farisol's Haggadah of 1515," Evelyn M. Cohen, "The Beginnings of Ketubbah Decoration in Italy: Venice in the Late Sixteenth to the Early Seventeenth Centuries," Shalom Sabar, "The David Drawings in Jacopo Bellini's Sketchbooks," Dalia Haitovsky, "The Gnostic Image of the Ruler," Moshe Barasch, "The Menorah as Symbol: Its Meaning and Origin in Early Jewish Art," Victor A. Klagsbald, "L'Alliance et la Promesse: le symbolisme d'Eretz-Israël dans l'iconography juive de moyen age," Elisheva Revel-Neher, "Jewish Symbolism of the Temple and the Tabernacle and Christian Symbolism of the Holy Sepulchre and the Heavenly Tabernacle," Bianca Kühnel, "Passover in St. Peter's," Herbert L. Kessler, "Ephraim, Mosaicist of Bethlehem: The Evidence from Jerusalem," Anthony Cutler, "More About Horned Moses," Ruth Mellnikoff, "The Iconography of Moses in Islamic Art," Rachel Milstein, "The Coronation of the Virgin and of the Bride," Naomi Feuchtwanger, "The Metamorphoses of Judith," Mira Friedman, "Wikkuach-Thematik in den Illustrationen hebräischer Handschriften," Kurt Schubert, "Remembering and Jewish Art," Richard Brilliant, "From My Desk," Rachel Wischnitzer, "The Bimah of the Worms Synagogue Reconsidered," Walter Cahn, "The Recovery of a Known Work," Vivian B. Mann, "A Glass Synagogue Lamp from Damascus," Jacobo Furman, "Jewish Fishscale Embroidery on Mazzah Bags from Eastern Europe," Ito Aber, "Lissitzky's 'Had Gadia,'" Haia Friedberg, "Ben Shahn and the Problem of Jewish Identity," Ziva Amishai-Maisels, "Five Allegorical Self-Portraits of Igael Tumarkin," Avigdor W.G. Poseq, "King David Modernized: Ivan Schwebel and Contemporary Sources," Milly Heyd, "The Publictions of Bezalel Narkiss," Yael Zirlin, Kettubot Italiane," Shalom Sabar, "Codex Maimuni," Zirlin, "Maurice Spertus, 1902-1986," Narkiss, "Edith Varga-Biro, 1927-1986," Aviva Muller-Lancet.
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