Outline of Jewish Art in Late Antiquity, prohibition of images, Jewish figurative art until the 6th century:
Christian-Jewish encounters in art (Eisenstadt) http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:472218
Influence of Jewish painting on early...
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Outline of Jewish Art in Late Antiquity, prohibition of images, Jewish figurative art until the 6th century:
Christian-Jewish encounters in art (Eisenstadt) http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:472218
Influence of Jewish painting on early Christian art http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:472308
The Contribution of Jewish Studies to the Research of Early Christian Art (the significance of Jewish Sources for Early Christian Iconography) http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:472342
Jewish Art in Antiquity (Basel 1983) http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:472616
Schubert did not exclude the possibility of Jewish figurative art in the Latin West of the early Middle Ages, and assumed that Hebrew manuscripts, which have not been preserved, may have existed (book burnings in Paris in the 1240s)
Yet there were also numerous Jewish voices against Jewish figurative art (Joseph Hameqanne)
The methods used in support of the assumed continuity from late antiquity to the Middle Ages deal with Christian works of art displaying elements borrowed from late antique Jewish art, which then recur in the Jewish art of the Middle Ages. These Christian works can therefore be seen as a bridge between the Jewish art of Late Antiquity and that of the Middle Ages.
There are Christian works of art containing Midrash elements in their iconography. When these elements are unknown in Christian exegesis, one can assume that the Christian works of art refer to earlier Jewish models.
The lecture therefore tries to establish a chain of tradition between the murals of the Dura Europos Synagogue and other Late Antiquity pictorial evidence using specific Christian medieval depictions and medieval Hebrew manuscripts.
Example 1: Childhood story of Moses – Dura Europos, Ashburnham Pentateuch, Byzantine Octateuchs, Pierpont Morgen Picture Bible, Golden Haggadah (for instance: Pharaoh’s daughter discovers the infant instead of one of the maids)
Example 2: Exodus from Egypt – Dura Europos, Ashburnham Pentateuch, Sarajevo Haggadah, Golden Haggadah, British Library, Or. 2884, Or. 2737 (for instance city architecture for Egypt, arming of the Israelites)
Story of Joseph: Joseph being sold to the Ishmaelite traders and depiction of his brothers having a meal, when the tradesmen arrive (Midrash) – San Marco in Venice, Paris, BnF gr. 510, Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus, Haggadah, British Library, Or. 2884
Story of Joseph: Potiphar’s wife seduces Joseph while seated in her bed, pretending to be ill: Vienna Genesis, Golden Haggadah, British Library, Or. 2884.
Haggadah, Or. 2884: Creation of Adam – related to the Cotton Genesis tradition (Millstadt Genesis), yet no longer correctly understood. Similar understanding of the revivification in the Ezekiel cycle of Dura Europos.
(Translator: Joan Avery)
The Corresponding illustrations, selected by the Center of Jewish Art (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), can be found here: http://phaidra.univie.ac.at/detail_object/o:526510
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