Akiva Kenneth Segan, J’accuse

Photo of Star of David in a painting titled J’accuse is courtesy of Akiva Kenneth Segan who wrote to me that it was created back around 1981-82, based on the Dreyfus affair.

IMHO Akiva Kenneth Segan connects here very cleverly the yellow badge with its anti-Semitic origin in France and the "I blame" (in French: J’accuse) is put not only on the Germans and the Nazis but also on the French and every other anti-Semite.
Copyright: Akiva Kenneth Segan 2007
PO Box 1721, Seattle, WA 98111 U.S.A.
Phone: (206) 624-4154 e-mail: underwings@connectexpress.com

Jacob’s dream

Photo of gouache painting of Star of David in Jacob’s dream is courtesy of illustrator and artist Sabina Saad. The triangle that touches the skies is the ladder with the angels of God ascending and descending on it. The triangle that touches the ground ends in Jacob’s pillow with the Hebrew letters of his name, Yaakov, above it.
Genesis:10-12

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.
And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it

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Copyrights Sabina Saad 2007
Ramot Meir, Israel
Phone: 97289410231

Theresienstadt Quittungen

Photo of a Jewish star on a 100 Quittungen banknote , which was used in ghetto Theresienstadt, is courtesy of David Diamant and if you have more information about this banknote please drop him a note at 313diamant@gmail.com

Ismael Smith Bookplate

Picture of Stars of David and Menorah on a bookplate by Ismael Smith is courtesy of bookplates collector Bob Weinberg (Bookplatebob@aol.com).

Ismael Smith was born in Barcelona in 1886 and died in New York in 1972. He was a sculptor, a sketcher, a decorator, a ceramist, a jeweler. 

A bookplate (ex-librīs, "from the books of"] is a decorative label to indicate the owner of a book. 

Tom Krepcio

Photo is courtesy of Tom Krepcio who made this Star of David engraved/sandblasted glass copper foil construction 9.5" circle, in 2000. Tom is devoted to stained glass and there’s a lot of info about this art on his website

Copyright: Tom Krepcio 2007
4173 Humphrey St. St. Louis MO 63116
phone 314 221 3296
Email: tom@krepcio.com

Church of S. Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome, Italy

In 1632 architect Borromini planned The University of Roma chapel, which was dedicated to St. Ivo, protector of the lawyers. Pope Alexander VII completed the church in 1660. The plan of the chapel is based on a hexagram.
See:
Solomonic Symbolism in Borromini's Church of S. Ivo alla Sapienza
Pierre de la Ruffiniere du Prey
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 31 Bd., H. 3 (1968), pp. 216-232

Eve of Redemption

Photo is courtesy of my favorite graphic artist nzdzeni who published it on Flickr and owns the Copyrights. nzdzeni added the folowing caption:

"This one was requested / inspired by Zeev [That’s me, zeevveez].
The shape of the Star of David alludes to the seventh day, the day of rest and *ultimately* redemption. The pictures in each part of the clock depict one day of creation according to the Genesis account".

According to my calculations (correct me if I'm wrong) we are presently at 17:47 in the afternoon on Friday. Shabbat begins Friday evening which was last Friday on 18:59 in Jerusalem, 19:21 in Telaviv and 19:13 in Haifa.
Since Balaam's prophecy the Star of David was always connected to Messianic expectations.