Vasari on the Jews: Christian canon, conversion, and the "Moses" of Michelangelo

• Autores: Gerd Blum
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 95, Nº 4, 2013, págs. 557-577
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Life of Michelangelo published in 1550 under the name of Giorgio Vasari contains a description of crowds of Roman Jews making a pilgrimage every Sabbath to the church of S. Pietro in Vincoli to "adore" Michelangelo's Moses. The veracity of Vasari's "report" is explored in the context of the first edition of The Lives and conversion policies of the Counter-Reformation church. Vasari's account of an alleged historical fact turns out to be a literary fiction underpinned by the theological topos of the "eschatological Jew" and the historiographical structure of The Lives, which models a Christian theology of history.