This image of Jewish cynocephalie as Christ-killers reinforces a common medieval trope about both Jews and Muslims as the executioners of Christ, because the existence of one, as I have argued earlier, conjured up the appearance of the other. In early Renaissance art, Jews and Muslims are often pictured together, present at the Crucifixion, as in Figure 2.6, a fifteenth-century painting of the Passion.

XREF: Connects to wider medieval Christian iconography of the Passion and anti-Semitic/anti-Islamic tropes.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 220