A Jewish pawnbroker's home. Blood in the background emanates
from the Host, which the moneylender has attempted to cook,
and seeps under the door. Note the theme of blood in the
emphasized use of red in this painting. Color has a rhetorical
effect. This story first entered the Italian literary tradition
via Giovanni Villani (c. 1280–1348) and his Nuova Cronica.
Uccello (1397-1475) uses linear perspective: thus the Renaissance
in service of anti-Semitism.
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