Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Uccello - Linear Perspective
At the service of anti-Semitism

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A Jewish pawnbroker's home. Blood in the background emanates from the Host, which the moneylender has attempted to cook, and seeps under the door. Note the theme of blood in the emphasized use of red in this painting. Color has a rhetorical effect. This story first entered the Italian literary tradition via Giovanni Villani (c. 1280–1348) and his Nuova Cronica. Uccello (1397-1475) uses linear perspective: thus the Renaissance in service of anti-Semitism.

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