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Judaism and Christian art : aesthetic anxieties from the catacombs to colonialism /

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 materia...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kessler, Herbert L., 1941-, Nirenberg, David, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011.
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction / Nirenberg, David
  • Chapter 1. ''Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded'': Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman Genealogies in Early Christian Art / Elsner, Jaś
  • Chapter 2. Unfeigned Witness: Jews, Matter, and Vision in Twelfth-Century Christian Art / Lipton, Sara
  • Chapter 3. Shaded with Dust: Jewish Eyes on Christian Art / Kessler, Herbert L.
  • Chapter 4. Iudeus sacer: Life, Law, and Identity in the ''State of Exception'' Called ''Marian Miracle'' / Prado-Vilar, Francisco
  • Chapter 5. Abraham Circumcises Himself: A Scene at the Endgame of Jewish Utility to Christian Art / Kupfer, Marcia
  • Chapter 6. Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut / Timmermann, Achim
  • Chapter 7. Jewish Carnality, Christian Guilt, and Eucharistic Peril in the Rotterdam-Berlin Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament
  • Chapter 8. The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice / Katz, Dana E.
  • Chapter 9. Through a Glass Darkly: Paths to Salvation in Spanish Painting at the Outset of the Inquisition / Pereda, Felipe
  • Chapter 10. Renaissance Naturalism and the Jewish Bible: Ferrara, Brescia, Bergamo, 1520-1540 / Campbell, Stephen J.
  • Chapter 11. Poussin's Useless Treasures / Neer, Richard
  • Chapter 12. Eugène Delacroix's Jewish Wedding and the Medium of Painting / Ubl, Ralph
  • Chapter 13. The Judaism of Christian Art
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.