Ketubbah

The custom of illuminating the traditional Jewish marriage contract, the kettubah, developed over the last four centuries into a rich and varied form of Jewish folk art. This book offers a broad selection from one of the outstanding collections of kettubot, representing More...
Jewish communities from the Near East to Northern Europe. It focuses particularly on the kettubot of Italy, where the art of illuminated kettubah, founds its most beautiful expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, under the influence of Renaissance of Baroque art.