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The Frick Collection hosts the North American debut of Francisco de Zurbarán's Jacob and His Twelve Sons, a Spanish Golden Age series with mysterious origins.
Jews and non-Jews who want to know more about the Bible, the Tanakh, who want to know why biblical figures acted as they did, and about the twelve sons of the patriarch Jacob and some of their ...
(The exhibition, “Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons: Paintings From Auckland Castle” is the second half of a Spanish Golden Age double feature at the Frick this season; earlier, that museum ...
My Hebrew name is Ya’akov, Hebrew for Jacob. When I celebrated becoming a bar mitzvah years ago at the age of 13, the observance coincidentally coincided with readings in the ...
It begins with the Spanish baroque master Francisco de Zurbarán, who in the 1640s made thirteen paintings of Jacob, the Old Testament patriarch, and his sons, who founded the twelve tribes of Israel.
Gather around, I add, that I may tell you what will happen if you visit “Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons, Paintings From Auckland Castle” at the Meadows Museum.
Dennis Keene’s outstanding professional choir and orchestra partners with the Frick Collection in presenting a musical pendant to the museum’s current exhibition of paintings by Zurbarán, on ...
The Frick Collection's "Zurbarán: Jacob and His Twelve Sons" advocates religious tolerance and raises questions about immigrant rights.
Baron Rothschild is one of the philanthropists backing a new museum of Christianity in UK, built around Jacob and His Twelve Sons.
‘Jacob and His Twelve Sons’: Zurbarán’s Biblical All-Stars NEW YORK — For much of European art history, religious authorities had the whip hand when it came to painting: They controlled ...