Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians and the Altarpieces of Medieval Spain - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904832709 ISBN 13: 9781904832706

Publisher: GILES, 2010

Synopsis

This volume provides a fascinating study of the iconography of altarpieces and the artistic collaboration between Jews and Christians. In the multi-cultural society of late medieval Spain, Jewish and Christian artists worked together to produce retablos (large multi-paneled altarpieces) as well as Latin and Hebrew religious manuscripts.

The authors of this highly illustrated volume explore the methods of imagery, workshop locations and shop styles, and the relationship between Christians and Jews at this time, including their portrayal of one another through dress and appearance. The essays featured in this volume take us on a journey from the general to the particular, and include a study of Jewish communities within Spanish society of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries by Thomas F. Glick, a survey of the painting of the period by Carmen Lacarra Ducay, an examination of specific artworks that address the issue of Jewish–Christian relationships by Vivian B. Mann, and a historiography of scholarship on Jewish involvement in the creation of Spanish medieval art by Marcus B. Burke. It features a glossary and a selected bibliography

About this title

About the Author:

Vivian B. Mann is director of the Masters Program in Jewish Art at the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Curator Emerita of the Jewish Museum; Maria del Carmen Lacarra Ducay is professor of Ancient and Medieval Art History at the University of Saragossa, Spain; Marcus B. Burke is curator of paintings, drawings, and metalwork at The Hispanic Society of America, New York; Thomas F. Glick is professor of history at Boston University.

About this edition

• Publisher: GILES
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1904832709
• ISBN 13: 9781904832706
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Mann Vivian B.