(Jewish Group)Italian Artist Giovanni Gasparro Revives Antisemitic Blood Libel With Graphic Painting

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Italian Artist Giovanni Gasparro Revives Antisemitic Blood Libel With Graphic Painting of Medieval Child ‘Martyr’

An Italian painter whose work has been honored by the Catholic Church for its devoutly Christian themes and masterful baroque style unveiled his latest canvas this week — a grotesquely antisemitic depiction of hook-nosed Jews engaged in the “ritual murder” of a terrified Christian infant.

Giovanni Gasparro, an artist based in the Adriatic port city of Bari, uploaded images of the 7ft X 5ft painting that revives the antisemitic blood libel of medieval times onto his Facebook page on Tuesday.

That the painting is replete with the basest antisemitic tropes is instantly apparent. Titled “The Martyrdom of St. Simon of Trento in Accordance With Jewish Ritual Murder,” it shows an infant boy surrounded by a crowd of sinister Jewish men, variously wearing side-curls and religious items, who strangulate him, cut him open and drain his blood.

Gasparro’s brush purposively accentuates the stereotypes of classic antisemitism: large hooked noses, yellowing uneven teeth, blood-stained fingers and visceral pleasure at forcing a non-Jewish child to suffer in a manner reminiscent of Jesus on the cross. As the child in the painting weeps with fear, the Jewish figures cackle and laugh with manic energy.

The historical event on which Gasparro’s painting is based occurred on March 21, 1475, when the disappearance of a two-year-old child named Simon in the northern Italian city of Trento sparked one of the most notorious episodes in the 900-year history of the blood libel. When the body of a little boy was discovered later that week — according to local rumor, in the cellar of a Jewish man named Samuel — a storm of anti-Jewish fanaticism erupted during the Christian holiday of Easter. The entire Jewish community was arrested and forced to confess under torture to having murdered Simon in a bloody ritual, with 15 of its leaders burned at the stake.



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Some bigotries NEVER die!

[JesterBear]

1. Beautiful

What a beautiful piece. Shading and coloring are exquisite.

[Behind the Aegis]

2. Shading and coloring aside it is anti-Semitic swill.

So to call it a "beautiful piece", while relative, is a bit disgusting, especially in the Jewish Group.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

3. and of all things to say on a '2nd post'

I reported it as abusive/insensitive.

[JesterBear]

5. Come again?

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If appreciation is abuse, in your eyes, I would never want to be around such people(I'm new here). You're giving Jews a bad name, why would you want to report me as abusive for appreciating art? I could see abuse as something like, destroying artwork or destroying anything. I forgive you for wanting me gone, though it's a bit insensitive, I am not sensitive enough to care about being where I am not wanted. Who would be around people that don't want them around anyways, what kind of person would do that to themselves? Not me.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

6. I'm not Jewish.. and you're play word games

Get over yourself.

[JesterBear]

7. Pardon?

Could you explain what that means?

[JesterBear]

4. Interesting take

I never think of what people say as "disgusting". I forgive your judgement of me though. What is it like to want to color someone as "disgusting" for what they express? It sounds like some deeply seeded trauma that you could maybe overcome, then your comment would have never happened and you would be doing something positive with your life instead of judging my appreciation for the beauty in the realism.

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Fascinating

I never think of what people say as "disgusting". Really? Nothing? No one has ever said something you found "disgusting"?

I forgive your judgement of me though. LOL! I made no judgement of you in my prior post, but I have now.

What is it like to want to color someone as "disgusting" for what they express? Given I did nothing of the sort to you, I know what it is like because I have "colored" the current administration that way on multiple occasions.

It sounds like some deeply seeded trauma that you could maybe overcome, then your comment would have never happened and you would be doing something positive with your life instead of judging my appreciation for the beauty in the realism. Given your first post, and this following codswallop, I really do not find myself concerned with your lazy pop psychology and sad, yet predicable, victim inversion.

All of that said, I don't think this group is a good fit for you.

[MosheFeingold]

9. I suspect

He also admires Hitler for the animal rights laws he passed.