The spirit of the letter: The Hebrew inscription in Bermejo's Piedat revisited

Yonatan Glazer-Eytan

doi:10.1163/15700674-12340018

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 Bartolomé 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)
Pages (from-to)	79-115
Number of pages	37
Journal	Medieval Encounters
Volume	24
Issue number	1-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/15700674-12340018
State	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Cultural Studies
Language and Linguistics
History
Religious studies
Linguistics and Language

Keywords

Bartolomé Bermejo
Christian hebraism
Conversos
Hebrew letters in Christian art
inscriptions and pseudo-inscriptions
inter-religious relations
man of sorrows

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The spirit of the letter: The Hebrew inscription in Bermejo's Piedat revisited

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