Summary: The so-called Salerno ivories comprise more than sixty carved plaques datable between eleventh and the twelfth centuries, combining Islamic, Byzantine, Coptic, and western Christian features. They present superb craftsmanship and display numerous biblical scenes as well as portraits of saints and magnificent decorative ornaments. In medieval times as today constituing one of the most precious and impressive treasures of the Cathedral of Salerno, they have attracted the attention of many historians and art historians, who have tried to contextualize the ivories in the medieval history of Salerno, southern Italy, and the Mediterranean. Yet they remain enigmatic, as do the many questions concerning their date, place of production, patronage, function, and possible audience. Accompanied by new photographs produced in a campaign sponsored by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, which for the first time presents the ivorie’s backs and oblique views as well as the reliefs, the volume brings together articles written by scholars with different backgrounds and perspectives on medieval art. It presents the Salerno ivories in an interdisciplinary approach and sheds new light on their important position as mirroring the visual culture of the ›Mediterranean‹ at the age of intense commercialism and cultural exchange

Contents: Anthony Cutler, The Fabric, facture, and enduring enigma of the Salerno ivories ; Sarah M. Guérin, The Tusk - Origins of the raw material for the Salerno ivories ; Pietro Baraldi (et al), La policromia superstite degli avori di Salerno ; Francesca Tasso, The Grado chair - a review of the historical and documentary sources ; Antonio Milone, Angelo Maria Bandini (1726-1803) e gli avori di 'Grado' e 'Salerno' ; Fabrizio Crivello, Gli avori del gruppo di 'Amalfi/Salerno' - considerazioni sui presupposti, sulla cronologia e la localizzazione ; Giovanni Guardia, Aspetti conservativi del cofanetto eburneo di Farfa ; Gabriella Bernardi e Giovanni Gasbarri, Tavolette quadrate bislonghe - note critiche sugli avori 'salernitani' del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna ; Antony Eastmond, On Diversity in southern Italy ; Maria Cristina Carile and Patricia Blessing, Architectural illusions and Architectural representations - buildings and space in the Salerno ivories ; Herbert L. Kessler, "Veteris testamenti typos evangelicae veritati profecisse monstravimus" - Realia and Spiritualia on the Salerno ivories ; Maria Evangelatou, Botanical exegesis in God's creation - the polyvalent meaning of plants on the Salerno ivories ; Natalia B. Teteriatnikov, When Art Depicts Ritual - the Salerno Plaque with the Women at the Tomb ; Jill Caskey, Miracles and Matthew - Potential contexts for the Salerno ivories ; Ruggero Longo and Elisabetta Scirocco, A scenario for the Salerno ivories - the Liturgical Furnishings of the Salerno cathedral ; Francesca Dell'Acqua, The Hidden sides of the Salerno ivories - Hypotheses about the original object, program, and cultural Milieu ; Avinoam Shalem, Epilogue - The Salerno riddle and some reflections on artifacts in the post-semiotic age.

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