Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries: Another Image

406 Pages·2019·22.95 MB·English

by  Borja Franco Llopis, Antonio Urquízar-Herrera (eds.)

Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond,
14th to 18th Centuries
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The Medieval and Early Modern
Iberian World
Edited by
Larry J. Simon (Western Michigan University)
Gerard Wiegers (University of Amsterdam)
Arie Schippers (University of Amsterdam)
Isidro J. Rivera (University of Kansas)
Mercedes García-Arenal (cchs/csic)
Montserrat Piera (Temple University)
volume 67
The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/memi
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Jews and Muslims Made Visible
in Christian Iberia and Beyond,
14th to 18th Centuries
Another Image
Edited by
Borja Franco Llopis
Antonio Urquízar-Herrera
leiden | boston
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Cover illustration: Detail of the altarpiece from the chapel of Corpus Christi in the church of the
monastery of Santa Maria de Vallbona de les Monges (Urgell) by the Master of Vallbona de les Monges
(Guillem Seguer?). Documented 1341–1348. Tempera, stucco reliefs, gold leaf and varnished metal plate
on wood. With kind permission of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
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ISSN 1569-1934
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Contents
List of Illustrations  vii
List of Contributors  xi
Introduction  1
Borja Franco Llopis and Antonio Urquízar-Herrera
Part 1
Images and Conversion
1 At the Foot of the Cross: Picturing Divine Justice and Conversion
in Valencian Retables, ca. 1400  13
Amadeo Serra Desfilis
2 Jews Imagined and Real: Representing and Prosecuting Host
Profanation in Late Medieval Aragon  40
Yonatan Glazer-Eytan
3 Converting Jews through Preaching and Painting in the Kingdom
of Aragon, ca. 1400  70
Maria Portmann
4 On Converso Artists in the Spanish Golden Age  89
Fernando Marías
Part 2
The Visual Negotiation of Hybridity
5 Hispania, Al-Andalus, and the Crown of Castile: Architecture
and Constructions of Identity  121
Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza
6 Reassessing the Artistic Choices of the Castilian Nobility at the End
of the 14th Century  139
Elena Paulino Montero
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7 Converso Patronage, Self-Fashioning, and Late-Gothic Art and
Architecture in 15th-Century Castile  161
Nicola Jennings
8 Islamic Objects in the Material Culture of the Castilian Nobility:
Trophies and the Negotiation of Hybridity  187
Antonio Urquízar-Herrera
9 Islamic Rugs in the Painting of the Eastern Adriatic: Use and
Iconography in the Early Modern Period  213
Ivana Čapeta Rakić
Part 3
A Different Otherness in the Mediterranean
10 Confronting Islam: Images of Warfare and Courtly Displays in Late
Medieval and Early Modern Spain  235
Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco de Asís García García
11 Scary Neighbours and Imperial Strategy: Contriving the Image of the
Subdued Infidel in Sardinian Altarpieces  266
Maria Vittoria Spissu
12 Turks in Genoese Art, 16th–18th Centuries: Roles and Images. A First
Approach  296
Laura Stagno
13 The Play of Mistaken Identities at the Porta Nuova of Palermo  331
Cristelle Baskins
14 Defeating the Enemy: the Image of the Turkish Slave in the Adriatic
Periphery of the Papal States in the 18th Century  355
Giuseppe Capriotti
Select Bibliography  381
Index  387
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Illustrations
Figures
1.1 Gherardo Starnina, Altarpiece of the Sacraments, known as Altarpiece of Boniface
Ferrer, ca. 1395–96  38
1.2 Altarpiece of the Holy Cross, ca. 1405–10  39
2.1 Master of Vallbona de les Monges, Altarpiece of Corpus Christi, detail, ca.
1349–51  67
2.2 Master of Vallbona de les Monges, Frontal of Corpus Christi, detail, ca.
1349–51  67
2.3 Jaume Serra, Altarpiece of the Virgin, detail, ca. 1367–73  68
2.4 Master of Villahermosa, Altarpiece of the Eucharist, ca. 1375–1400  68
2.5 Master of Villahermosa, Altarpiece of the Eucharist, ca. 1375–1400  69
2.6 Master of Villahermosa, Altarpiece of the Eucharist, ca. 1375–1400  69
3.1 Lluis Borrassà, Altarpiece Dedicated to Saint Francis, 1414–15  85
3.2 Detail of Saints Jude Thaddaeus and Simon Bringing the Letter to King Abgar in
Edessa and the “Mandylion,” from: Lluis Borrassà, Altarpiece Dedicated to Saint
Francis, 1414–15  86
3.3 Detail of Saint Dominic Saving Pilgrims from a Ship Wreck, from: Lluis
Borrassà, Altarpiece Dedicated to Saint Francis, 1414–15  87
3.4 Detail of the Massacre of the Holy Innocents, from: Lluis Borrassà, Altarpiece
Dedicated to Saint Francis, 1414–15  88
4.1 Juan de Pareja, The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1661  110
4.2 Bartolomé Bermejo, The Death of the Virgin, ca. 1468–76  111
4.3 Bartolomé Bermejo, Descent of Christ into Limbo, ca. 1474–78  112
4.4 Juan Correa de Vivar, Annunciation, 1559  113
4.5 Hans Holbein the Younger, Moses and the Burning Bush, 1543  114
4.6 Fray Juan Bautista Maíno, Moses and the Burning Bush, 1612–13  115
4.7 Luis Tristán, The Adoration of the Magii, ca. 1620  116
4.8 Jusepe Ribera, Saint Peter and Saint Paul, 1616–17  117
5.1 Church of St Romanus, ca. 1221  133
5.2 St. Leander (Hispanic Liturgy) and St. Ambrosius (Roman Liturgy),
ca. 1221  133
5.3 La Giralda, Almohad minaret, 12th century  134
5.4 Montería façade, 1364  135
5.5 Hall of Peter I’s palace with reused Roman and Visigothic spolia, 1364  135
5.6 Detail of the Montería façade, 1364  136
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5.7 Roman capital from Mérida, reused in the Mosque of Cordoba in the 9th
century  136
5.8 Detail of Roman materials, La Giralda  137
5.9 (a) Collegiate Church of the Blessed Sacrament, 16th century / (b) Detail of
Umayyad capitals from the 10th century  137
5.10 Church of St Andrew, 15th century  138
5.11 (a) Detail of the Spanish and Latin inscriptions in Fernando iii’s Epitaph,
ca. 1252 / (b) Detail of the Arabic and Hebrew inscriptions in Fernando iii’s
Epitaph  138
6.1 Frieze of Stuccos of the palace of Medina de Pomar, South Tower, ca.
1384  156
6.2 Room of the palace of Curiel de Duero at the beginning of the 20th century, ca.
1386  156
6.3 Frieze of stuccos of the palace of Medina de Pomar at the beginning of the 20th
century, South Tower, ca. 1384 Burgos  157
6.4 Room of the palace of Curiel de Duero at the beginning of the 20th century, ca.
1386  158
6.5 Choir of the Poor Clare Convent of Moguer, ca. 1370–1400  159
6.6 Detail of the choir of the Poor Clare Convent of Moguer, ca. 1370–1400  160
7.1 Saldaña Chapel, 1430–35  183
7.2 Tomb of Alonso de Cartagena, mid 15th century  183
7.3 Juan Guas and Sebastián de Almonacid, Cloister portal, 1471–76  184
7.4 Attributed to Juan Guas and Gil de Siloe, Façade of the St Gregory College,
1488–99  185
7.5 Attributed to Juan Guas and Gil de Siloe, Detail of Wild Man  186
8.1 Trousseau of King Boabdil, 15th century  209
8.2 Niccolò da Corte, Medieval Islamic Trohies, ca. 1540  210
8.3 Anonymous, Portrait of Don Alonso Granada Venegas (sitter traditionally identi-
fied as Sidi Yahya, Pedro of Granada Venegas), early 17th century  211
8.4 Anonymous, Design of an Islamic revival showcase for the trousseau of King
Boabdil, ca. 1892  212
9.1 Girolamo da Santa Croce, Sacra Conversazione, 1537  226
9.2 Zorzi Ventura, Sacra Conversazione, 1602  227
9.3 Vittore Carpaccio, Sacra Conversazione, 1516  228
9.4 Benedetto Carpaccio, Sacra Conversazione, ca. 1538–45  229
9.5 Girolamo da Santa Croce, Sacra Conversazione, ca. 1535–40  230
9.6 Girolamo da Santa Croce, Sacra Conversazione, ca. 1540–45  231
10.1 Rodrigo Alemán, Choir-stalls of the Toledo Cathedral, 1489–95  263
10.2 Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen and Willem de Pannemaker, The Fall of Tunis. Ninth
tapestry of the Conquest of Tunis series, 1548–54  264
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