Re: gilded script on the inlay

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

You know, Josh, since you bring this up, I don't feel it invalidates the 
artwork, but nonetheless I am annoyed at the horns.  It's just plain 
wrong.  It has helped propogate the idea of Jews as different, as 
demons, doing horrible things.  My father told me that when he was 
stationed at Indiantown Gap, PA, during the Korean War some other 
soldier said to him upon learning he was a Jew, "But where are your 
horns?"  Not humorously.  He was genuinely perplexed.  So, the artwork 
itself may be great, but the misinterpretation ruins a part of it for 
some people, either the subject or the audience.
Lorele

>
>But remember all those Renaissance paintings which depict Moses with horns
>coming out of his head? They were based on a misinterpretation of a biblical
>passage in Hebrew which was misconstrued as meaning "the horned one." One
>painter copied the other and before long we had a new genre of Moses
>depictions. Are they invalid as artworks today?
>
>Again, kick this ass. Please. Josh
>


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