Item Number: 147865 Title: La Bibbia miniata della Comunità ebraica di Venezia. The Illuminated Bible of the Jewish Commnity of Venice Author: Luzzatto Voghera, Gadi Price: Not Available ISBN: 9788863364316 Description: Saonara: Il Prato, 2017. 25cm., hardcover, 544pp. prof. illus. Italian-English text Summary: The manuscript Illuminated Bible preserved by the Jewish Community of Venice is far more than a book. In its first pages one can find an interpretative debate between different Jewish writing traditions. A comparison that is literal but also figurative, with the use of colors, shapes, imaginative and realistic images. A small object, rescued from the book-burnings decreed during the Countereformation, from iconoclastic censorship, from the robberies and from the massacres of the twentieth century. A book that is the product of the encounter between the Jewish civilization, attentive to the written word, and the Italian culture producing wonderful artistic forms...(sic).
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