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The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion : metalwork, art, and technology in the medieval Islamicate Mediterranean

Title
The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion : metalwork, art, and technology in the medieval Islamicate Mediterranean / edited by Anna Contadini ; [authors, Damiano Anedda, Rafael Azuar, Anna Contadini [and others]].
Publication
  • Pisa, Italy : Pacini Editore, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Contadini, Anna
  • Anedda, Damiano
  • Azuar Ruiz, Rafael
Description
543 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color charts; 29 cm
Summary
"The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean is an interdisciplinary study focusing on two unique bronze sculptures produced between the late eleventh and the early twelfth century. Through scientific, historical and art historical analyses it investigates the many issues that surround them, including fundamental questions of location and period, purpose and patronage, their transcultural meanings, and their agency as the function of each has mutated. By bringing related pieces into the discussion, this study seeks to change our understanding of medieval art and metal production in the Western Mediterranean and to highlight the significance of metalworking in Spain and South Italy. It shows how the relationship between these areas and the rest of the Mediterranean was marked by active exchanges of goods and artistic ideas during the period just prior to the development of the better-known Shirazi, Ayyubid and Mamluk inlaid metalwork." -- Publisher's description
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-543).
Language (note)
  • Texts in Italian, English, Franch, and Spanish.
Contents
Preface / Deborah Howard -- Biographical notes of the authors -- Overview of the significance of the study -- Section 1 : Structure and function. Presenting the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion / Richard Camber and Anna Contadini -- Aspetti conservativi ed archeometallurgici del Grifone del Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Pisa / Massimo Vidale, Stefano Ferrari e Mirco Bassi -- Il Grifone di Pisa: tecniche costruttive e modalità di decorazione / Mirco Bassi -- Acoustics of the Griffin and Lion / Maurice Merrell (interviewed by Anna Contadini and Farouk Yahya) -- Acoustic automata / Richard Camber and Anna Contadini -- The Mari-Cha Lion: did it once roar? / David B. Sharp -- Section 2: Technology. Preface to the technical analyses / Anna Contadini -- Technical studies of the Mari-Cha Lion and the Pisa Griffin / Peter Northover -- Analysis of the alloy of the Pisa Griffin / G. Lorenzetti [and four others] -- Tenth to twelfth-century copper-alloy metalwork from Spain, Turkey and Palestine / Matthew Ponting -- Copper on Cyprus / Walter Fasnacht -- Compositional XRF analyses of Islamic metallic objects from the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN) in Madrid / Marc Gener and Ignacio Montero-Ruiz -- Using digital 3D technology for documenting and studying the Griffin -- Section 3 : History and art. Pisa, le imprese e le prede: il contributo delle fonti narrative per un'ipotesi sulla provenienza del Grifone / Gabriella Garzella -- The Mari-Cha Lion in the context of Apulian Romanesque sculpture / Richard Camber -- The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: history, art and technology / Anna Contadini -- Metalwork of the caliphal period of Spain. Piezas metálicas suntuarias del periodo califal de al-Andalus / Antonio Vallejo Triano -- Arqueología de la metalistería islámica de al-Andalus durante los reinos de Taifa (s. V HG/XI DC) / Rafael Azuar -- The animal medallions on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion / Rachel Ward -- The inscriptions on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: from banal blessings to indices of origin / Julian Raby -- Section 4: Comparative. The Cagliari Peacock: consideration on its origin and discovery / Damiano Anedda -- The 'Doha Hind' and the bronze menagerie / William Greenwood -- Une bouche de fontaine en forme de lion et un mortier découverts à Monzón de Palencia en Espagne / Claire Déléry -- Eagles, cockerels and other birds: the Mount Sinai Aquamanile in context / Anna Ballian -- The Lucca Falcon / Anna Contadini -- Analysis of the alloy of the Lucca Falcon / G. Lorenzetti [and four others] -- Falco di San Frediano (Lucca): osservazioni preliminari / Massimo Vidale e Stefano Ferrari -- Il Falco di Lucca: osservazioni sul rivestimento / Mirco Bassi e Gabriella Garzella -- Section 5 : Appendices. Introduction to tables 1, 2a and 2b: compositions of eleventh-twelfth century copper alloy castings / Peter Northover -- Risultati delle datazioni con il radiocarbonio / Lucio Calcagnile -- Grifone islamico esposto nel Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Pisa. Indagini xilotomiche su frammenti di legno carbonizzato provenienti dall'interno dell'ala destra / Giulia Galotta -- Terre di fusione del Grifone di Pisa / Lucia Conti -- Distribution of decorative tools on the Griffin / Stefano Ferrari and Massimo Vidale.
ISBN
  • 9788869953064
  • 8869953068
LCCN
2019370763
OCLC
  • on1054257108
  • 1054257108
  • SCSB-9236517
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library