This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity. By looking at the ways pre-modern Iberians envisioned diversity, we can reconstruct several stories, frequently interwoven with devotional literature, poetry or Inquisitorial trials, and usually quite different from a binary story of simple opposition. The book’s point of departure narrates the relationship between images and conversions, analysing the mechanisms of hybridity, and proposing a new explanation for the representation of otherness as the complex outcome of a negotiation involving integration.
Author(s): Borja Franco Llopis, Antonio Urquízar-Herrera (eds.)
Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 67
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 404
City: Leiden
List of Illustrations vii
List of Contributors xi
Introduction / Borja Franco Llopis and Antonio Urquízar-Herrera 1
Part 1. Images and Conversion
1. At the Foot of the Cross: Picturing Divine Justice and Conversion in Valencian Retables, ca. 1400 / Amadeo Serra Desfilis 13
2. Jews Imagined and Real: Representing and Prosecuting Host Profanation in Late Medieval Aragon / Yonatan Glazer-Eytan 40
3. Converting Jews through Preaching and Painting in the Kingdom of Aragon, ca. 1400 / Maria Portmann 70
4. On Converso Artists in the Spanish Golden Age / Fernando Marías 89
Part 2. The Visual Negotiation of Hybridity
5. Hispania, Al-Andalus, and the Crown of Castile: Architecture and Constructions of Identity / Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza 121
6. Reassessing the Artistic Choices of the Castilian Nobility at the End of the 14th Century / Elena Paulino Montero 139
7. Converso Patronage, Self-Fashioning, and Late-Gothic Art and Architecture in 15th-Century Castile / Nicola Jennings 161
8. Islamic Objects in the Material Culture of the Castilian Nobility: Trophies and the Negotiation of Hybridity / Antonio Urquízar-Herrera 187
9. Islamic Rugs in the Painting of the Eastern Adriatic: Use and Iconography in the Early Modern Period / Ivana Čapeta Rakić 213
Part 3. A Different Otherness in the Mediterranean
10. Confronting Islam: Images of Warfare and Courtly Displays in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain / Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco de Asís García García 235
11. Scary Neighbours and Imperial Strategy: Contriving the Image of the Subdued Infidel in Sardinian Altarpieces / Maria Vittoria Spissu 266
12. Turks in Genoese Art, 16th–18th Centuries: Roles and Images. A First Approach / Laura Stagno 296
13. The Play of Mistaken Identities at the Porta Nuova of Palermo / Cristelle Baskins 331
14. Defeating the Enemy: the Image of the Turkish Slave in the Adriatic Periphery of the Papal States in the 18th Century / Giuseppe Capriotti 355
Select Bibliography 381
Index 387
