The Miracle of the Crucifix of Beirut by the Florentine Jacopo Coppi in San Salvatore in Bologna: painted architecture and hypothesis for a new Jewish tolerance in the age of Gabriele Paleotti

Abstract

The altarpiece by the Florentine Jacopo Coppi kept at the church of San Salvatore in Bologna represents the Miracle of the Crucifix of Beirut, a rare iconography that the Florentine painter inserts in a complicated architectura picta. This studio reconsiders the iconographic and stylistic aspects through the data of the most updated artistic literature pieces in order to read them in a new and different historiographic perspective, which also shows an unexpected policy of tolerance towards Jews in the Palaeottian context.