Uriel da Costa
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Uriel da Costa was a Portuguese Sephardi philosopher who was born a New Christian but returned to Judaism, whereupon he questioned the Catholic and rabbinic orthodoxies of his time. This led him into
Imaginary 1897 portrait by Léon Bakst
Uriel da Costa's excommunication (1888) by Meijer de Haan took 8 years of work, created a huge backlash, and disappeared shortly after, and is still not extant.
Exemplar Humanae Vitae, by Uriel Acosta.
Imagined portrait of da Costa instructing the young Baruch Spinoza, by Samuel Hirszenberg (1901)
Léon Bakst
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Léon Samoylovich Bakst, born Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich Rosenberg, was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Jewish origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Rus
Uriel da Costa
…Uriel da Costa Imaginary 1897 portrait by Léon Bakst Born Gabriel Fiuza da Costa 1585 Porto, Kingdom of Portugal Died 1640 C. Amsterdam, Dutch Republic Education Education Universidade de Coimbra, Faculty…
Self-Portrait, 1893, oil on cardboard, 34 × 21 cm; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Carnival in Paris in Honour of the Russian Navy; c. 20th-century.
For Cléopâtre by Mikhail Fokine; 1910.