List of Illustrations
Introduction: Princes, Jews, and the Rhetoric of Tolerance
Chapter 1. The Contours of Tolerance and the Corpus Domini
Altarpiece in Urbino
Chapter 2. The Politics of Persecution in Quattrocento Mantua
Chapter 3. Slaying Synagoga in Estense Ferrara
Chapter 4. The Jew, the Madonna, and the Mob in Republican
Florence
Chapter 5. Searching for Simon in Trent and Beyond
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Dana E. Katz reveals how Italian Renaissance painting became part of a policy of tolerance that deflected violence from the real world onto a symbolic world. While the rulers upheld toleration legislation governing Christian-Jewish relations, they simultaneously supported artistic commissions that perpetuated violence against Jews.
Dana E. Katz teaches art history and humanities at Reed College.
"A rigorous, well-written, and readable book on the sensitive topic of Christian anti-Judaism and its manifestation and transmission in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italian art. The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance will stand as the definitive study of its topic."--Stephen Campbell, The Johns Hopkins University
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