Prado show examines how images helped fuel centuries of antisemitism in Spain

A new exhibition chronicles the shifting lenses through which Spain's Catholics saw the country's Jewish population

The jet, horn, silver and coral amulets placed around the neck of a three-year-old boy in Tarrega almost seven centuries ago offered no protection against the crowds who massacred him and hundreds of other Jews in the Catalan town in 1348.

Some of the other pieces in a new exhibition at Madrid's Prado museum that looks at how images were used to shape and define relationships between Jews and Christians in medieval Spain may have been more effective in warding off the escalating antisemitic hatred.