Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Portrait of the artist as a young mapmaker.

Here's the famous self-portrait of Ya'akov ben Avraham Zaddik (aka Jaacob Justo) in his 1621 map of the land of Israel printed in Amsterdam. You can read his entire inscription by clicking the image below to enlarge it. See the complete map here.



Sort of makes you wonder about "all of our grandfathers." (link)
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7 comments:

  1. Y. 6:15 PM, January 25, 2012

    he coould be the יוצא מן הכלל. Not *this* is what makes you wonder about it.

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  2. DF10:43 PM, January 25, 2012

    Yeah. I read that article, and with all respect to Katzeleh, the first thing I thought was that he was dead wrong about thinking our ancesotrs were chareidim. But I saw already a few people in the comments already pointed it out.

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  3. Anonymous9:44 AM, January 26, 2012

    The finger-like things coming out of his left hand are really odd.

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  4. S.9:47 AM, January 26, 2012

    You mean his gloves?

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  5. Dov2:36 PM, January 26, 2012

    The sun in the upper left corner is making me giggle, I can't help it.

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  6. S.4:36 PM, January 26, 2012

    That sun looks very disapproving.

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  7. Dov8:48 PM, January 28, 2012

    Still making me laugh.

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