An Inquiry into the Image of Jews in 15th-Century Istria: The Iconography of the Jewish-Christian Dispute
| Autor: | Čapeta Rakić, Ivana, Capriotti, Giuseppe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | IKON. 15:43-56 |
| ISSN: | 2507-041X 1846-8551 |
| DOI: | 10.1484/j.ikon.5.132350 |
| Popis: | The external features with which Jews are marked in Christian iconography have long been known and specified in the literature. Those differentiations have emerged predominantly since the Crusades, and especially after the Fourth Lateran Council, when it was decided that Jews and Saracens must be distinguished from Christians by the way they dress. In the late Middle Ages, numerous paintings were created in the area of the Istrian peninsula in which the external features of religious otherness, predominantly those of Jews, can be recognized. This is primarily manifested by the Jewish hat, as the most common attribute of Jews in Christian iconography, but also by some other symbols such as scorpions, physical deformations or metaphorical blindness which are attributed to Jews. In this preliminary research, the authors recognized such attributes on the frescoes in Pazin, Lindar, Lovran, Beram, Gračišće, Svetvinčenat, Pićan and Vižinada. A research on this topic in the aforementioned territory, however, is yet to be conducted, considering that this is only the first step in a comprehensive study of Jewish-Christian relations through the prism of iconography in Croatian art history. This paper will focus on the localities of Lindar, Beram and Vižinada, with a special emphasis on the iconography of Disputes of Christians and Jews in painted narratives. The different manners of depicting the same iconographic themes, which can be presented as either neutral or with a certain shift through the use of attributes, will be indicated. Furthermore, the authors will argue that the specific iconography of selected works of art can be interpreted as anti-Jewish/anti-heretic. Emergence of these themes within the broader european context will be explored, as well as their reception in the Istrian peninsula. |
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