Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Studies in Iconography
Angaben zur Quelle:
23 (2002) 137-181
Keywords:
Canavesio, Giovanni
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Christian art and symbolism
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Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
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Jews
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Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
Discusses antisemitic iconography in the paintings of the Piedmontese artist and priest Giovanni Canavesio (fl. 1450-1500), completed in 1492 for the pilgrimage sanctuary of Notre-Dame des Fontaines near the southern French town of La Brigue. Notes the prominence of Judas symbolizing Jewish lack of faith in and betrayal of Jesus and suggesting the Jews' role in deicide, as well as Jewish physical stereotypes in figure and dress, and negative associations of Jews with usury. At this place and time in history, Christian orders were establishing Christian loan associations, partly to force Jewish moneylenders out of business. Points to other symbols that suggest Jewish features. Stresses that many of these were apparently also intended to refer to the Waldensian heretics.
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