- Megillah (scroll) of the Book of Esther for use on Purim (eighteenth century; Dutch).
Decoration of Purim megillot was common. Note the depiction of the signs of the Zodiac in
much the same way as in Hammat Tiberias in the fourth century (Plate 17). - (above left) Baruch Spinoza (1632–77), the great philosopher of the Enlightenment, by an
unknown Dutch artist from the seventeenth century. - (above right) Portrait of a Dutch Jew from the same period. His clothes, like those of
Spinoza, naturally reflect contemporary Dutch style, but he is also wearing a large tallit and
carrying a Torah scroll surmounted with rimmonim (finials) and a crown.
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