Falk Wiesemann.

Gross Family Collection.

Düsseldorf, Germany, 2002. 148 pp., illustrations: 22 col., 224 b&w, 29 × 22 cm. German, with one essay in English.

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Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (23 September–15 November 2002)

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.

For an expanded version of this exhibition see #1748 (2003).

BIBLICAL IMAGES
CEREMONIAL OBJECTS
CHRISTIAN ART
CHRISTIAN ART, INFLUENCE ON JEWISH ART
PRINTED BOOKS
TSENA U-RENA
WOODCUTS

Amulets
Besamim
Bibles
Book bindings
Damascene work
Haggadot
Hebrew illuminated manuscripts, Bohemia-Moravia & Germany, 17th–19th C
Joseph ben David of Leipnik (scribe-artist)
Merian Bible
Micrography
Pesach cups
Pesach plates
Pesach towel covers
Pidyon ha-Ben plates
Scrolls of Esther, engraved borders
Scrolls of Esther, woodcut illustrations

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.

Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek, Cologne, Germany (9 January–20 February 2003); Jüdisches Museum Hohenems, Austria (25 May–17 August 2003)