Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Beyond the Yellow Badge
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2008) 145-177
Keywords:
Jesus Art Passion
;
Naumburger Dom
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Sculpture
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Christian art and symbolism
;
Crucifixion in art
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Antisemitism in art
;
Jews in art
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Naumburg (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany)
Abstract:
Concentrates on the portrayal of Jewish men in the Passion narrative depicted in the 13th-century choir screen of the Naumburg Cathedral, fashioned in stone by sculptors ca.1250. States that, for all its quantitative emphasis on Jewish involvement in Christ’s Passion, the Naumburg program is unusual among contemporaneous monumental depictions of the subject in its refusal to cast the Jews as malevolent “others”. Not only do most of the Jewish characters (recognizable by their hats) appear physically interchangeable with the Apostles or Romans, but also, far from heaping violent abuses on Christ, they conduct themselves according to the legal conventions and behavioral codes of 13th-century Saxon laypeople. Presents political and economic reasons for this positive depiction in Naumburg at that time,. Pp. 150-157 describe blatantly antisemitic portrayals of Jews in other Cathedrals in Germany.
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