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The Salerno ivories : objects, histories, contexts

Title
The Salerno ivories : objects, histories, contexts / edited by Francesca Dell'Acqua, Anthony Cutler, Herbert L. Kessler, Avinoam Shalem, and Gerhard Wolf.
Publication
  • Berlin : Gebr. Mann Verlag, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Dell'Acqua, Francesca
  • Cutler, Anthony, 1934-
  • Kessler, Herbert L., 1941-
  • Shalem, Avinoam
  • Wolf, Gerhard, 1952-
Description
367 pages : illustrations (partly color); 28 cm
Subject
  • Ivories, Medieval > Italy > Salerno
  • Ivories, Medieval
  • Italy > Salerno
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language (note)
  • 11 English contributions with 5 in Italian.
Contents
Foreword / Gerhard Wolf -- Preface / F. Dell'Acqua, A. Cutler, H. L Kessler, A. Shalem, G. Wolf -- The fabric, facture, and enduring enigma of the Salerno ivories / Anthony Cutler -- The tusk: origins of the raw material for the Salerno ivories / Sarah M. Guerin -- La policromia superstite degli avori di Salerno / Pietro Baraldi, Paolo Bensi, Andrea Rossi, and Palolo Zannini -- The Grado Chair: a review of the historical and documentary sources / Francesca Tasso -- Angelo Maria Bandini (1726-1803) e gli avori di 'Grado' e 'Salerno' / Antonio Milone -- Gli avori del gruppo di 'Amalfi/Salerno'. Considerazioni sui presupposti, sulla cronologia e la localizzazione / Fabrizio Crivello -- Aspetti conservativi del cofanetto eburneo di Farfa / GIovanni Guardia -- Tavolette quadrate bislonghe. Note critiche sugli avori 'salernitani' del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna / Gabriella Bernardi e Giovanni Gasbarri -- On diversity in southern Italy / Antony Eastmond -- Architectural illusions and architectural representations: buildings and space in the Salerno ivories / Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing -- "Veteris testamenti typos evangelicae veritati profecisse monstravimus": Realia and Spiritualia on the Salerno ivories / Herbet L. Kessler -- Botanical exegesis in God's creation: he polyvalent meaning of plants on the Salerno ivories / Maria Evangelatou -- When art depicts ritual: the Salerno plaque with the women at the tomb / Natalia B. Teteriatnikov -- Miracles and Matthew: potential contexts for the Salerno ivories / Jill Caskey -- A scenario for the Salerno ivories: the liturgical furnishings of the Salerno Cathedral / Ruggero Longo and Elisabetta Scirocco -- The hidden sides of the Salerno ivories. Hypotheses about the original object, program, and cultural milieu / Francesca Dell'Acqua -- Epilogue: the Salerno riddle and some reflections on artifacts in the post-semiotic age / Avinoam Shalem.
Call Number
JQF 17-1574
ISBN
  • 9783786127307
  • 3786127301
LCCN
9783786127307
OCLC
949848767
Title
The Salerno ivories : objects, histories, contexts / edited by Francesca Dell'Acqua, Anthony Cutler, Herbert L. Kessler, Avinoam Shalem, and Gerhard Wolf.
Publisher
Berlin : Gebr. Mann Verlag, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language
11 English contributions with 5 in Italian.
Added Author
Dell'Acqua, Francesca, editor.
Cutler, Anthony, 1934- editor.
Kessler, Herbert L., 1941- editor.
Shalem, Avinoam, editor.
Wolf, Gerhard, 1952- editor.
Other Standard Identifier
9783786127307
Research Call Number
JQF 17-1574
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