Hebrew Manuscript Painting in Late Medieval Spain: Signs of a Culture in Transition
Katrin Kogman-Appel
In medieval Spain, Hebrew illuminated manuscripts gave expression to two distinct artistic languages. Bibles used an aniconic, primarily ornamental idiom closely linked the Islamic arts of while Passover Haggadot a richly narrative mode, including figurative images, derived from Gothic stylistic tradition. Examination this phenomenon reveals its roots in divisions among Spanish Jews socially, between Sephardim and Ashkenazim, upper classes middle classes, culturally, rationalists traditionalists, those who identified with culture tied Christian Europe.
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