The Jew In the Art of the Italian Renaissance explores the politics of tolerance in the Italian courts through representations of the Jew in early modern painting and sculpture. Although Renaissance princes often favored Jewish settlement in their territories and supported civic policies of toleration, the art of the period reveals how symbolic violence targeted against local Jews entered into everyday life. The book examines the principalities of Urbino, Mantua, and Ferrara and contrasts them to republican Florence and imperial Trent to determine how the Renaissance term "tollerare" acquired local meanings and how the dynamics of tolerance inevitably were linked to civic identity.