the image of the jew in christian art
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The Image of the Jew
in Christian Art
Gregory the Great (Bishop of Rome 590-604)
• “Pictures are brought into churches so that those who are illiterate might nevertheless, by looking upon the walls, read about those things which they are not able to read about in books” (1st letter to Bishop Serenus of Massilia, 599)
• “It is one thing to adore a picture, another to learn, through the history presented in the picture, what ought to be adored. For what writing gives to those who read it, the picture provides for those who see it …thus reading without knowing their letters” (2nd
letter to Serenus, 600)
• Later“God … has given to man a power and force of the soul that is called memory. This memory has two doors, sight and hearing, and to each of those doors there is a path …these paths are called painting and speech. Painting serves for the eye, speech for the ear”
(Richard de Fournival, 1201-1260)
The Bird HaggadahGermany
c1300
Published by Metropolitan Books
2014
TheProphet Sophonias, from the Lobbes Bible, 1084
Jews Being BeatenMarginal Illustration from the Rochester Chronicle
(British Library, Cotton Nero D. II.), folio 183v,
Madonna and Child
Enthroned with Saints and Donors
and the Jewish Norsa family below
(end of the fifteenth century,
Church of Sant'
Andrea,Mantua.
San Zeno Doors, Verona, 11th Century showing Abraham and the 3 Angels
Daniel in stained glass window, Augsburg, Germany,
first half of 12th century
Gathering of the Manna
by the Master of the Gathering of the Mannac1460-80Musée del
la Chartreuse de Douai
Old Testament Sacrifice by the Master of the
Gathering of the Manna
c1460-80Museum
Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Road to Emmaus. Winchester Psalter, England, ca. 1121–60. London, BL ms. Cotton Nero C iv, fol. 25.
Psalter and Canticles (St Albans) c. 1246-c. 1260
Jesus nailed to the cross under the direction of Jewish and Gentile executioners, enamel reliquary casket, circa 1170
The Circumcision of Christ,
Friedrich Herlin (German), oil on panel (?), 1466,
St. Jakob Church, Rothenb
urg ob der Tauber, Germany
Master of the Tucher
Altarpiece, active ca.
1430-50 in Nürnberg
Circumcision of Christ, ca.
1440-50Limewood
panel, 101 x 90 cm.
Aachen, Suermondt-
Ludwig Museum,
Circumcision Set of the Torres
FamilyNetherlands, 1827
and 1866Box: silver: filigree, cast and
hammered; inlaid with semiprecious
stones Utensils: silver: cast,
filigree, and hammered; carved
mother-of-pearlJewish Museum,
New York
The ritual murder of Simon of
Trent, in a woodcut by
Michael Wolgemut from the
Nuremberg Chronicle,
1493
Martyrdom of Saint Simon of Trent by Gandolfino di Roreto d'Asti (active c. 1493) Israel Museum
“Circumcision gives you an advantage.
That is why it is customary amongst
Jews.”
Postcard c.1900Germany
Left: Nazi Poster for the film The Eternal Jew 1940
Right: Anti-Semitic cartoon 2011
Moses by Michelangelo1513-15 and from the Walters Manuscript
c.1250
Antelami – Deposition from the CrossParma Cathedral c1178
Giovanni Pisano Crucifixion from Pulpit at Siena Cathedral 1265-8
12
Ecclesia and SynagogaStrasbourg Cathedral c1230
Crucifixion from the Hortus Deliciarum of Harrad of Landsberg c.1185
Ecclesia and Synagoga by the Master of Saint Ursula 1475-82
Mary Magdalen in a turban in Robert Campin’s Entombment Triptych c 1425 Courtauld Gallery
An Allegory of the Old & New Testaments by Hans Holbein the Younger c.1530s.
National Gallery of Scotland
Erhard Altdorfer’s title page for Luther
Bible 1153
Judensau – Colmar and choir stalls in Cologne Cathedral
Venice and the East
Imports from the Levant
• Spice (in particular pepper)
• Silverware
• Jewellery
• Drugs
• Dyes
• Ceramics
Gentile Bellini’s visits to Constaninople 1479 & 1480 Portrait of Sultan Mehmet, NG, London (currently on show at V&A)
Drawings made in Constantinople, British Museum
Dürer, Three Ottomans copied
from Bellini, 1496-7, British Museum
Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria, 1504–7; Brera, Milan
Middle Eastern InfluenceCarpaccio – The Sermon of St Stephen 1514, Louvre
Silk, satin, velvet, brocade and damaskSchool of Giovanni Bellini The Circumcision c.1500
National Gallery, London
Middle Eastern InfluenceCima da Conegliano Madonna and Child c.1496, NG London
Paolo Uccello – Battle of San Romano, 1438-40, National Gallery, London
Uccello, Profanation of the Host, 1465-9, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche,
Uccello, Profanation of the Host, 1465-9, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche,
Uccello, Profanation of the Host, 1465-9, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche,
Uccello, Profanation of the Host, 1465-9, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche,
Uccello, Profanation of the Host, 1465-9, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche,
Uccello, Profanation of the Host, 1465-9, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche,
Madonna and Child
Enthroned with Saints and Donors
and the Jewish Norsa family below
(end of the fifteenth century,
Church of Sant'
Andrea,Mantua.