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SUMMARY:2015 IAS/Kress Lecture in Italy\, Naples
DESCRIPTION:Nino Zchomelidse\, "Scena Sacra - Tribuna Civica: Il ruolo d
 ell'ambone nella Campania medievale."\n\n\n\nThe sixth&nbsp\;annual IAS/
 Kress Italian Lecture series took place&nbsp\;on 20 May 2015 at 4 p.m&nb
 sp\;in the Aula Piovanniof the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici at the c
 omplex of San Pietro Martire\, part of the Università degli Studi di Na
 poli Federico II. Professor Nino Zchomelidse (Johns Hopkins University) 
 presented a lecture in Italian titled “Scena Sacra – Tribuna Civica:
  Il ruolo dell’ambone nella Campania medievale.” Prof. Zchomdelidse 
 is a specialist in the arts of medieval Italy and their connections with
  the lands of the eastern Mediterranean\, and her recent work has focuse
 d especially on liturgical furnishings\, manuscripts\, and pulpits.\n\n\
 n\nIAS Secretary (now Executive Vice President) Sean Roberts introduced 
 the speaker\, whose lecture built upon research first presented in her r
 ecent book Art\, Ritual\, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy 
 (Pennsylvania State University Press\, 2014). &nbsp\;Approximately 35 pe
 ople were in attendance\, split roughly 50/50 between English speaking s
 cholars and Italians. These included professors and students at the Univ
 ersità degli Studi di Napoli Federico II\, several current Fellows from
  the Villa I Tatti in Florence\, and graduate students from American uni
 versities.\n\n\n\nIn her lecture\, Prof. Zchomdelidse sharpened the broa
 d geographic scope of her previous project to focus on mutable conceptio
 ns of ecclesiastical space\, and their relationship to a changing tradit
 ion of liturgy\, aptly within the environs of eleventh through thirteent
 h-century Naples and especially its environs in Campania.&nbsp\; In part
 icular\, through readings of both extant examples and illustrations in p
 eriod manuscript illumination\, she explored the evolving function of th
 e ambo\, or pulpit\, in the churches of medieval Campania. Through a fin
 e-grained analysis of the use of these pulpits for staging readings of S
 cripture\, as well as the iconography of their decoration\, she presente
 d a compelling case for the ways in which liturgy was celebrated as a di
 stinctive and highly localized practice that varied widely from region t
 o region. The early twelfth-century pulpit at the cathedral of Ravello\,
  for instance\, employed the motif of Jonah being swallowed by and subse
 quently emerging from the whale both to emphasize a typological relation
 ship to the liturgy and simultaneously as a galvanizing image for the lo
 cal congregation as the story played a particularly prominent role in th
 e Easter Mass in Campania. In this way\, Prof. Zchomelidse convincingly 
 demonstrated the ways in which pulpits served the dual purpose of re-sta
 ging scriptural\, and especially Christological\, spaces and events for 
 believers while helping to craft a civic identity specific to medieval C
 ampania. A lively question and answer session followed the talk.\n\n\n\n
 The IAS is deeply grateful to Vinni Lucherini\, Professoressa di Storia 
 dell’arte medievale in the Dipartimento&nbsp\;di Studi Umanistici\, Un
 iversità degli Studi di Napoli Federico II\, Naples\, who organized the
  lecture as well as to Dr. Alessandra Rullo who provided invaluable assi
 stance in Naples and to Professore Francesco Aceto of the Università de
 gli Studi di Napoli Federico II who welcomed attendees. We are also grat
 eful to&nbsp\;Dr. Stefano D’Ovidio\, who assisted Events Coordinator G
 ilbert Jones with the lovely reception held in the cortile outside the A
 ula.
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LOCATION:Naples\, Italy
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