Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism

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Herbert L. Kessler, David Nirenberg
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012年10月8日 - 456 頁

Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world.

The thirteen essays in Judaism and Christian Art reveal that Christian art has always defined itself through the figures of Judaism that it produces. From its beginnings, Christianity confronted a host of questions about visual representation. Should Christians make art, or does attention to the beautiful works of human hands constitute a misplaced emphasis on the things of this world or, worse, a form of idolatry ("Thou shalt make no graven image")? And if art is allowed, upon what styles, motifs, and symbols should it draw? Christian artists, theologians, and philosophers answered these questions and many others by thinking about and representing the relationship of Christianity to Judaism. This volume is the first dedicated to the long history, from the catacombs to colonialism but with special emphasis on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, of the ways in which Christian art deployed cohorts of "Jews"—more figurative than real—in order to conquer, defend, and explore its own territory.

 

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Introduction
1
Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman Genealogies in Early Christian Art
10
Jews Matter and Vision in TwelfthCentury Christian Art
45
Jewish Eyes on Christian Art
74
Chapter 4 Life Law and Identity in the State of Exception Called Marian Miracle
115
A Scene at the Endgame of Jewish Utility to Christian Art
143
Chapter 6 Frau Venus the Eucharist and the Jews of Landshut
183
Chapter 7 Jewish Carnality Christian Guilt and Eucharistic Peril in the RotterdamBerlin Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament
203
Paths to Salvation in Spanish Painting at the Outset of the Inquisition
263
Ferrara Brescia Bergamo 15201540
291
Chapter 11 Poussins Useless Treasures
328
Chapter 12 Eugène Delacroixs Jewish Wedding and the Medium of Painting
359
Chapter 13 The Judaism of Christian Art
387
List of Contributors
429
Index
431
Acknowledgments
443

Chapter 8 The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice
233

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Herbert L. Kessler is Professor of the History of Art at the Johns Hopkins University and author of Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God's Invisibility in Medieval Art, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. David Nirenberg is Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Department of History at the University of Chicago. He is author of Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages and Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition.

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