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Jewish Symbols and Secrets: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Carpet
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Jewish Symbols and Secrets: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Carpet Hardcover - 2012

by Anton Felton


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In the hundred years that led up to expulsion in 1492, hundreds of thousands of Spanish Jews converted publically - but not privately - to Christianity. They left some clues to their compelling and dangerous secret lives, revealed through personal artifacts. This book examines one such artifact - the brilliant 15th-century Vizcaya carpet that has bedazzled experts and visitors alike. It becomes clear through this original study of the private lives of the noble family who commissioned the carpet, as well as the weavers who wove it, that neither group were Christians. They were secret Jews, also known as conversos. The symbols in the carpet - with their hidden messages of Judaism and Kabbalah - are analyzed in the book, along with their alternative meanings in medieval Christian and Islamic culture. Jewish Symbols and Secrets also traces the history of the Star of David in Judaism, from Biblical times to 1600 C.E. The hitherto neglected role of textiles in Jewish culture is uncovered, a

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  • Title Jewish Symbols and Secrets: A Fifteenth-Century Spanish Carpet
  • Author Anton Felton
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vallentine Mitchell, London/Portland, OR
  • Date 2012-04
  • ISBN 9780853038344 / 0853038341
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Art Aspects
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Jewish rugs - Spain - History - To 1500, Jewish art and symbolism - Spain - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011278944
  • Dewey Decimal Code 746.79
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Vallentine Mitchell, 2012 ISBN 10: 0853038341 ISBN 13: 9780853038344, 2012. Hardcover. New/New. Hardcover. New book. 286 p., 73 illus., 56 in color, 24 x 16 cm. An extended analysis of a 15th century Viscaya carpet, with sections on the role of Jews and converted Jews in carpet production, the possibility that the original owner of the carpet was of Jewish ancestry, and the extent of Jewish symbols woven into the carpet design.
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