Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

Rembrandt’s “Jewish Heroine from the Hebrew Bible,” the central painting, was completed when the artist was 27. While the identification with Esther is not entirely ironclad — the Jews have no ...

with a shadowy painting of Mordecai overhearing the plot of Ahaseurus’ guards and scenes of his triumph on horseback. One of the few paintings of Esther with Mordecai, by Aert de Geulder ...

The Wits Art Museum (WAM) presents the work of South Africa’s cultural icon Dr Esther Mahlangu titled ‘Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting: Esther Mahlangu, A Retrospective’. Jenkins Johnson Gallery ...

Johannesburg welcomed a milestone moment in the arts on November 18, as the Wits Art Museum (WAM) hosted a media briefing ahead of the public opening of Then I Knew I Was Good at Painting: Esther ...