Intrecci d'arte (Dec 2020)

The Miracle of the Crucifix of Beirut by the Florentine Jacopo Coppi in San Salvatore in Bologna: painted architecture and hypothesis for a new Jewish tolerance in the age of Gabriele Paleotti

  • Valeria Rubbi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-7251/11850
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
pp. 54 – 79

Abstract

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The altarpiece by the Florentine Jacopo Coppi kept at the church of San Salvatore in Bologna represents the Miracle of the Crucifix of Beirut, a rare iconography that the Florentine painter inserts in a complicated architectura picta. This studio reconsiders the iconographic and stylistic aspects through the data of the most updated artistic literature pieces in order to read them in a new and different historiographic perspective, which also shows an unexpected policy of tolerance towards Jews in the Palaeottian context.

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