The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat Revisited

Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

doi:10.1163/9789004401792_006

The Spirit of the Letter: The Hebrew Inscription in Bermejo’s Piedat Revisited

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The Hebrew inscription in the Piedat attributed to Bartolome Bermejo is usually viewed in relation to the possible involvement of conversos in the painting. Offering a broader exploration of the local setting as well as the visual and textual models available to Bermejo, this article goes beyond a narrow converso interpretation and situates the inscription within two different contexts: An environment of growing Christian interest in Hebraic knowledge and an Aragonese artistic experimentation with the iconography of the Man of Sorrows.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Interreligious Encounters in Polemics between Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Iberia and Beyond
Publisher	Brill
Pages	79-115
Number of pages	37
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004401792
ISBN (Print)	9789004401761
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004401792_006
State	Published - Jan 1 2019
Externally published	Yes

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General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

Bartolome Bermejo
Christian hebraism
Conversos
Hebrew letters in Christian art
Inscriptions and pseudo-inscriptions
Inter-religious relations
Man of sorrows

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