The Salerno ivories
Subtitle: objects, histories, contexts
By: edited by Francesca Dell'Acqua, Anthony Cutler, Herbert L. Kessler, Avinoam Shalem, and Gerhard Wolf
Publisher: Gebr. Mann Verlag; Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH; Gebruder Mann Verlag
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9783786127307
Subjects: Medieval Ivories
Description: "The Salerno ivories clearly lie at the very heart of the complex nature of 'Mediterranean art' at a time of intense commercial and cultural exchange....So many essential questions are still subject to debate: whether they were commissioned by a pope, an archbishop, or a powerful secular ruler; if they were carved in the eleventh of twelfth century; if this occurred in Salerno, Amalfi, Palermo, or Rome, in a monastery, at a court, or in an independent workshop; if they were part of an archiepiscopal throne, an antependium, a set of doors, or a reliquary."--Preface, p. 10.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

11 English, 5 Italian contributions.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Gerhard Wolf; title: Preface / F. Dell'Acqua, A. Cutler, H. L Kessler, A. Shalem, G. Wolf; title: The fabric, facture, and enduring enigma of the Salerno ivories / Anthony Cutler; title: The tusk: origins of the raw material for the Salerno ivories / Sarah M. Guerin; title: La policromia superstite degli avori di Salerno / Pietro Baraldi, Paolo Bensi, Andrea Rossi, and Palolo Zannini; title: The Grado Chair: a review of the historical and documentary sources / Francesca Tasso; title: Angelo Maria Bandini (1726-1803) e gli avori di 'Grado' e 'Salerno' / Antonio Milone; title: Gli avori del gruppo di 'Amalfi/Salerno'. Considerazioni sui presupposti, sulla cronologia e la localizzazione / Fabrizio Crivello; title: Aspetti conservativi del cofanetto eburneo di Farfa / GIovanni Guardia; title: Tavolette quadrate bislonghe. Note critiche sugli avori 'salernitani' del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna / Gabriella Bernardi e Giovanni Gasbarri; title: On diversity in southern Italy / Antony Eastmond; title: Architectural illusions and architectural representations: buildings and space in the Salerno ivories / Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing; title: "Veteris testamenti typos evangelicae veritati profecisse monstravimus": Realia and Spiritualia on the Salerno ivories / Herbet L. Kessler; title: Botanical exegesis in God's creation: he polyvalent meaning of plants on the Salerno ivories / Maria Evangelatou; title: When art depicts ritual: the Salerno plaque with the women at the tomb / Natalia B. Teteriatnikov; title: Miracles and Matthew: potential contexts for the Salerno ivories / Jill Caskey; title: A scenario for the Salerno ivories: the liturgical furnishings of the Salerno Cathedral / Ruggero Longo and Elisabetta Scirocco; title: The hidden sides of the Salerno ivories. Hypotheses about the original object, program, and cultural milieu / Francesca Dell'Acqua; title: Epilogue: the Salerno riddle and some reflections on artifacts in the post-semiotic age / Avinoam Shalem.