Figuring the mosaic image prohibition in early modern Italy
In his description of Michelangelo’s statue of Moses (c.1513-1545), Giorgio Vasari alleges that Roman Jews would abandon their religious observances to “adore” the image of the iconoclastic Hebrew lawgiver on the tomb of Pope Julius II. The Mosaic prohibition of “graven images” is recognised in Juda...
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University College London (University of London)
2017
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