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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Jacob El Hanani

Artist Jacob El Hanani reflects on the Mishneh Torah by Master of the Barbo Missal in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"Books were made to last forever."

Artist Jacob El Hanani reflects on the "Mishneh Torah" by Master of the Barbo Missal in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Jacob El Hanani, born in 1947 in Casablanca, is an Israeli artist who creates micrographic drawings.

Jacob El Hanani (Israeli, born Morocco, 1947)

Tehilim, 1978–81

Ink on canvas; 50 × 50 in. (127 × 127 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Syril and Leonard Rubin, 1983 (1983.199) © Jacob El Hanani

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Mishneh Torah, Master of the Barbo Missal Italian, Tempera and gold leaf on parchment; leather binding, North Italian
Mishneh Torah
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1457