Renaissance
Christian Renaissance paintings of the Temple are the visual record of a theology that had devastating consequences in the lives of Jews from antiquity to the Middle Ages and beyond.
In their view, religion both complemented and restrained the humanities.
The Jews of Ferrara.
Salomone de Sesso.
Art historians have almost completely ignored the many connections between the great Old Master and the Jews of Venice. Is there more to be said?
Azariah de’ Rossi, Modern Orthodox rabbi?
And the 17th-century Spanish book that influenced it.
How the Maharal arranged Hebrew lessons for Huguenots.
A controversial figure.
And commemorates the establishment of the first ghetto.
The story of Hebrew religious literature in the era of the printed word.
What use is “a secular perspective on the Bible’s pivotal role in art history”?
The Italian humanist Giovanni Pico della Mirandola was among the first of many Renaissance Christian thinkers to become interested in Jewish mysticism. David Navarro reviews. . .
A group of Israeli musicians has been performing the sacred and secular work of Salomone Rossi, who composed music both for the synagogue and to. . .