A Converts Tale by Tamar Herzig

Harvard University Press
A Converts Tale by Tamar Herzig
A Converts Tale by Tamar Herzig
Product Specifications
  • Title: A Converts Tale by Tamar Herzig
  • Author: Tamar Herzig
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • History of art art & design styles
  • No. of pages: 400
  • Dimensions (approx. mm): 240 x 163 x 35

Product Description

Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing his craft and patrons and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.