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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg Klappentext Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate, represent, and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism, both real and imagined, they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world. Zusammenfassung Christian cultures across the centuries have invoked Judaism in order to debate! represent! and contain the dangers presented by the sensual nature of art. By engaging Judaism! both real and imagined! they explored and expanded the perils and possibilities for Christian representation of the material world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Introduction -David Nirenberg Chapter 1. "Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded": Some Reflections on Jewish and Roman -Genealogies in Early Christian Art -Jä Elsner Chapter 2. Unfeigned Witness: Jews, Matter, and Vision in Twelfth-Century Christian Art -Sara Lipton Chapter 3. Shaded with Dust: Jewish Eyes on Christian Art -Herbert L. Kessler Chapter 4. Iudeus sacer : Life, Law, and Identity in the "State of Exception" Called "Marian Miracle" -Francisco Prado-Vilar Chapter 5. Abraham Circumcises Himself: A Scene at the Endgame of Jewish Utility to Christian Art -Marcia Kupfer Chapter 6. Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut -Achim Timmermann Chapter 7. Jewish Carnality, Christian Guilt, and Eucharistic Peril in the Rotterdam-Berlin Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament -Mitchell B. Merback Chapter 8. The Ghetto and the Gaze in Early Modern Venice -Dana E. Katz Chapter 9. Through a Glass Darkly: Paths to Salvation in Spanish Painting at the Outset of the Inquisition -Felipe Pereda Chapter 10. Renaissance Naturalism and the Jewish Bible: Ferrara, Brescia, Bergamo, 1520-1540 -Stephen J. Campbell Chapter 11. Poussin's Useless Treasures -Richard Neer Chapter 12. Eugène Delacroix's Jewish Wedding and the Medium of Painting -Ralph Ubl Chapter 13. The Judaism of Christian Art -David Nirenberg List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments ...
