Naomi Samuel, Author at סגולה

Portrait of a People | Rite of Passage

Naomi Samuel Bar Mitzvah Oil on canvas35 x 45 cmParis, 1865 Jacques Émile Édouard Brandon1831-1897 ImpressionismAn artistic movement going beyond classic representation to convey emotional impressions created in the artist by light and movement Jacques...

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Issue 68 | March 2024

Portrait of a People | Everyday Miracles

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Abraham, Sarah, and the AngelOil on wood58 X 71 cmBelgium, 1520Louvre, Paris Jan Provoost1465-1529 Northern RenaissanceNorthern European movement influenced by the Italian Renaissance as well as humanism, Protestantism, and religious warfare. Realism and...

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Issue 74 | October 2025

Medieval Period

Portrait of a People | Tower of Power

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The Tower of BabelOil on wood panel114 x 155 cmBrussels, 1563Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Pieter Bruegel the Elder1525-1569 Northern RenaissanceA 16th-century movement in which artists north of the Alps adopted and adapted the techniques...

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel The Slave TradeOil on canvas162 x 229 cmParis, circa 1840Wilberforce House Museum,Hull, England François-Auguste Biard1799–1882 Genre ArtAn outgrowth of Realism, genre art focuses on the world as it is, including any typical depiction...

Issue 72 | March 2025

Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel InteriorOil on canvas295 x 320 cmCape Town, c. 1930–35Iziko South AfricanNational Gallery, Cape Town Wolf Kibel1903-1938 ExpressionismTwentieth-century movement seeking to convey emotion rather than reality, often through distortion or exaggeration I...

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Self-PortraitMilan, 1690121 X 95 cmOil on canvasMuseum of Fine Arts, Budapest Salomon Adler1630-1709 BaroqueOrnate, mainly 17th-century style of European architecture, art, and music, encouraged by the Catholic church in...

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Issue 45 | November 2018

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Eunuch’s Costume for the Ballet ScheherazadeParis, 191027 X 43 cmGouache and graphite with gold accentsMetropolitan Museum of Art New York Léon Bakst1866-1924 Art NouveauAn international style of art, design, and architecture popular...

Issue 71 | December 2024

Portrait of a People | Lions on Canvas

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Daniel in the Lions’ DenOil on canvas, 98 x 152 cmLondon, 1872National Museums, Liverpool Briton Rivière1840-1920RomanticismAn artistic movement aiming to represent everyday life as is London-born Briton Rivière is renowned for his...

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Issue 70 | September 2024

United Kingdom

Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Jews Mourning in ExileOil on canvas163 x 133 cmDusseldorf, 1832Wallraf-Richartz Museum,Cologne, Germany Eduard Bendemann1811-1889 RomanticismA reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, this late-18th-century movement in literature, philosophy, and art emphasized the subjective,...

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

Naomi Samuel

Naomi Samuel Interrrogation IPrague, 1934-38120 X 180 cmOil on woodJewish Museum, Prague Friedl Dicher-Brandeis1898-1944 Deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942 with a fifty-kilo weight limit, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis filled her...

Issue 64 | March 2023

Women

Make Art, Not War

Naomi Samuel

Painting as Oxygen Churchill's painting of Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, 1921, oil on canvas, Private collection, London Churchill Heritage Ltd Best known as the British prime minister who defeated Hitler, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is famed for his...

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Portrait of a People | Rite of Passage

Portrait of a People | Everyday Miracles

Portrait of a People | Tower of Power

Portrait of a People | Chilling Testimony

Portrait of a People | Cape Crusader

Portrait of a People | Painting from Life

Portrait of a People | On Stage

Portrait of a People | Lions on Canvas

Portrait of a People | How Shall We Sing the Lord’s Song?

Portrait of a People | Mother of Art Therapy

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