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Straal is a member of Mensa International.


Normally he doesn't add new pages, but tidies up or enhances existing ones he finds lying around...


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The Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish Cemetery is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. Painted in 1654 or 1655, it is an allegorical landscape painting suggesting ideas of hope and death, while also being based on Beth Haim, a cemetery located on Amsterdam's southern outskirts, at the town of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel. Beth Haim is a resting place for some prominent figures among Amsterdam's large Jewish Portuguese community in the 17th century. Ruisdael presents the cemetery as a landscape variant of a vanitas painting, employing deserted tombs, ravaged churches, stormy clouds, dead trees, changing skies, and flowing water to symbolize death and the transience of all earthly things. The known provenance for the painting dates back only to 1739 and its original owner is not documented; since 1926, it has been owned by the Detroit Institute of Arts.Painting credit: Jacob van Ruisdael



His contributions so far:

30 June 2010

14 July 2006

27 September 2005

17 September 2005

14 September 2005

8 September 2005

6 September 2005

2 September 2005

25 August 2005

24 August 2005

11 August 2005

25 May 2005

4 May 2005

9 April 2005

8 April 2005

7 April 2005

17 March 2005


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