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PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

ISBN-100812240855

ISBN-139780812240856

eBay Product ID (ePID)64155278

Product Key Features

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameJew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance

SubjectJudaism / History, European, History / Renaissance, History / General

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Religion

AuthorDana E. Katz

SeriesJewish Culture and Contexts Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2008-299873

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"A rigorous, well-written, and readable book on the sensitive topic of Christian anti-Judaism and its manifestation and transmission in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian art. The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance will stand as the definitive study of its topic."-Stephen Campbell, The Johns Hopkins University, "A rigorous, well-written, and readable book on the sensitive topic of Christian anti-Judaism and its manifestation and transmission in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian art. The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance will stand as the definitive study of its topic."--Stephen Campbell, The Johns Hopkins University

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal709.45/09024

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Introduction: Princes, Jews, and the Rhetoric of Tolerance Chapter 1. The Contours of Tolerance and the Corpus Domini Altarpiece in Urbino Chapter 2. The Politics of Persecution in Quattrocento Mantua Chapter 3. Slaying Synagoga in Estense Ferrara Chapter 4. The Jew, the Madonna, and the Mob in Republican Florence Chapter 5. Searching for Simon in Trent and Beyond Conclusion Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

SynopsisRenaissance Italy is often characterized as a place of unusual tolerance and privilege toward Jews. Unlike England, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, the princely courts of early modern Italy, particularly Urbino, Mantua, and Ferrara, offered economic and social prosperity to Jews. When anti-Jewish hostilities created civic tumult in this region, secular authorities promptly contained the violence. Yet this written record tells only one part of the story. Pictures tell another. In The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance , Dana E. Katz reveals how Renaissance paintings and sculpture became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence to a symbolic status. While rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews. The economic benefits Jewish toleration supplied never outweighed the animosity toward Jews' participation in the Christian community. Katz examines how particular forms of visual representation were used to punish Jews symbolically for alleged crimes against Christianity, including host desecration, deicide, and ritual murder. The production of such imagery testifies to the distinctive Jewry policies employed in the northern Italian princedoms, republican Florence, and imperial Trent. The book provides new insights into famous masterworks by Andrea Mantegna, Paolo Uccello, and others, placing these paintings within a larger discourse that incorporates noncanonical, provincial works of art., Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews., Renaissance Italy is often characterized as a place of unusual tolerance and privilege toward Jews. Unlike England, France, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, the princely courts of early modern Italy, particularly Urbino, Mantua, and Ferrara, offered economic and social prosperity to Jews. When anti-Jewish hostilities created civic tumult in this region, secular authorities promptly contained the violence.Yet this written record tells only one part of the story. Pictures tell another. In "The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance," Dana E. Katz reveals how Renaissance paintings and sculpture became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence to a symbolic status. While rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian- Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews. The economic benefits Jewish toleration supplied never outweighed the animosity toward Jews' participation in the Christian community.Katz examines how particular forms of visual representation were used to punish Jews symbolically for alleged crimes against Christianity, including host desecration, deicide, and ritual murder. The production of such imagery testifies to the distinctive Jewry policies employed in the northern Italian princedoms, republican Florence, and imperial Trent. The book provides new insights into famous masterworks by Andrea Mantegna, Paolo Uccello, and others, placing these paintings within a larger discourse that incorporates noncanonical, provincial works of art.

LC Classification NumberN7485