The Salerno Ivories

Objects, Histories, Contexts
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-7861-2730-7
Verlag: Gebr. Mann

Buch, Englisch, Italienisch, 368 Seiten, GB, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 280 mm, Gewicht: 1680 g

Über 60 sogenannte Salerno-Relieftafeln aus Elfenbein (11.-12. Jh.) bilden einen kostbaren Schatz der Kathedrale von Salerno in Süditalien. Die Darstellungen vereinen islamische, byzantinische, koptische und abendländische Einflüsse und gewähren Einblick in die visuelle Kultur des Mittelmeerraums in einem Zeitalter enger Handelsbeziehungen und kulturellen Austauschs. Die herausragende Elfenbeinschnitzkunst zeigt biblische Szenen ebenso wie Heiligenfiguren oder prächtiges Ornament. Sie zu datieren, ihre Herkunft zu bestimmen oder in der mittelalterlichen Geschichte Salernos zu verorten, ist bisher nicht eindeutig gelungen. Wer waren die Mäzene? Was war die Funktion der Tafeln, und an welche Zielgruppe richteten sich die Darstellungen? Beiträge verschiedener Disziplinen, entstanden im Rahmen des internationalen Forschungsprojektes „Mediterranean Cross-Currents: The So-Called Salerno Ivories“ vereinen in diesem Band neue Perspektiven auf mittelalterliche Kunst. Sie beleuchten Produktionsweisen, Ikonografie, Funktion und Rezeption.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cutler, Anthony

Francesca, Dell'Acqua

Kessler, Herbert L.

Shalem, Avinoam

Wolf, Gerhard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Islamische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Christliche Kunst

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Dell'Acqua is Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham (2015–17), where she investigates the Western response to the Byzantine iconoclasm. She is interested in the materiality of objects and their contribution to cultural history and traditions in the Medieval West and the Mediterranean area.

Anthony Cutler is the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Penn State University. He is an international expert on ivory carving with numerous works.

Herbert L. Kessler is Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). He is currently an Invited Professor at the Masaryk University in Brno; a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author or editor of some 20 books and nearly 200 articles and reviews.

Avinoam Shalem is the Riggio Professor of the arts of Islam at the Columbia University. His main field of interest is in medieval artistic interactions in the Mediterranean, medieval aesthetics and the historiography of the field.

Gerhard Wolf is Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut / Max-Planck-Institut in Florence (since 2003) and honorary professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (since 2008). His main research fields and projects include Mediterranean art histories and pre-modern globalization, theories of the image, as well as sacred topographies in an interreligious perspective.

Francesca Dell'Acqua is Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham (2015–17), where she investigates the Western response to the Byzantine iconoclasm. She is interested in the materiality of objects and their contribution to cultural history and traditions in the Medieval West and the Mediterranean area.

Anthony Cutler is the Evan Pugh Professor of Art History at Penn State University. He is an international expert on ivory carving with numerous works.

Herbert L. Kessler is Professor Emeritus of Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore). He is currently an Invited Professor at the Masaryk University in Brno; a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the author or editor of some 20 books and nearly 200 articles and reviews.

Avinoam Shalem is the Riggio Professor of the arts of Islam at the Columbia University. His main field of interest is in medieval artistic interactions in the Mediterranean, medieval aesthetics and the historiography of the field.

Gerhard Wolf is Director of the Kunsthistorisches Institut / Max-Planck-Institut in Florence (since 2003) and honorary professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (since 2008). His main research fields and projects include Mediterranean art histories and pre-modern globalization, theories of the image, as well as sacred topographies in an interreligious perspective.