Further to above: I remember our guide on a tour of Urbino looking embarrassed describing and interpreting the scene to our group, and calling the character performing the desecration "a merchant" rather than "a Jew", which was obviously what the artist had intended and expected viewers of his work to recognise. The point of the painting is that the blood runs under the door and brings a mob who burn the Jew & his family!

How fascinating to discover this tale still apparently current as least as recently as Joe's children's childhood!