PRESENTATION AND SELF-PRESENTATION OF JEWS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Keywords:
Renaissance visual culture, iconography of anti-Semitism, Judenbild, changing stereotypes of sacred and profane art, visualization of the Old Testament heroes, Jewish art and self-presentationAbstract
Renaissance visual culture, sacred and profane, has shaped the character of the Jew as a grotesque and corrupt. However, the development and duration of this stereotype was not linear, but has changed within the changing context of Christian-Jewish relations. Although the imagery Adversus Judaeos is indisputable, it is necessary to study its mechanism and turn the attention to the existence of a variable dynamic of representations of Judaism. Visualization of the Synagogue and the Old Testament heroes points to the ambivalence of representation of Judaism in the early modern period. Special attention is diverted to the field of Jewish visual culture. Jewish art is unique, but, at the same time, is the offspring of Christian-Jewish dialogue and mutual exchange. It is the product of the Jewish spirit but also an integral segment of the European culture of the early modern era.
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