Language:
French
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
Cahiers d'Etudes Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (1991) 109-126
Keywords:
Judas Iscariot
;
Jewish art
;
Christian art and symbolism
;
Antisemitism in art
Abstract:
States that biblical iconography is an important source for research on anti-Judaism. Already in the 4th century, Judas Iscariot became a symbolic figure of the Jew. Analyzing the "Last Supper" as painted or sculpted by various north Italian artists from the 12th-15th centuries, surveys the evolution of their presentation of Judas as a symbol of all Jews (at the beginning by isolating him from the rest of the apostles). Indicates the process of his demonization, an expression of growing anti-Judaism in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century due to the presence of Jewish usurers. However, compared to German art of the same period, the Italian image of Judas is much less caricatured and "racist".
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