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Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Menorah: worship, history and myth', in collaboration with the Vatican Museums and the Jewish Community of Rome, held at the Braccio di Carlo Magno within the Vatican, and at the Jewish Museum of Rome, the volume retraces the compelling millenary history of the Menorah: the legendary pure gold candelabrum forged by Moses under the guidance of God, safeguarded within the Temple of Jerusalem, which through time has become the symbol of the Jewish People, whose form was copied in mediaeval times, as a seven-armed candlestick used liturgically in Christian churches. Over 400 pages, rich in introductory texts in Italian and English, as well as the reproduction in color of all the 130 works of art on display - masterpieces from the history of art from archeology to contemporary times - antique sculptures, antique glassware, paintings from artists such as Giulio Romano, Andrea Sacchi, Nicolas Poussin and Marc Chagall, manuscripts, imposing Christian candelabra dating from the XIII to the XVIII century, roman baroque silver, illuminated manuscripts of worldwide importance such as the Bible of St. Paul, from the Carolingian period A "part" for the "whole" : reality and myth of the Menorah from antiquity to the present = Una "parte" per il "tutto" : la menorà tra realtà e mito dall'antichità a oggi / Francesco Leone -- The Menorah : energy of a symbol = La menorà : energia di un simbolo / Amedeo Spagnoletto -- The Menorah, the dawn of messianic redemption in the Christian symbolic interpretation = Menorà, aurora della redenzione messianica nell'interpretazione simbolica cristiana / Pier Francesco Fumagalli -- The symbology of the Menorah in the first three centuries of Christianity = La simbologia della menorà nel cristianesimo dei primi tre secoli / Emanuela Prinzivalli -- The magic of the Menorah in the modern era : from an object of devotion to the Kabbalah = La magia della menorà in età moderna : da oggetto di devozione alla Qabbalà / Marina Caffiero -- The Menorah and its symbolism in Jewish art over the ages = La menorà e il suo simbolismo nell'arte ebraica nei secoli / Shalom Sabar -- In the shadow of the temple : depicting the Menorah in ancient art = All'ombra del tempio : la raffigurazione della menorà nell'arte antica / Samuele Rocca -- "The candelabrum of the seven lamps, a custom peculiar to the Jews, which has persevered until our times" : the Menorah in Rome and Europe, from late antiquity to the Middle Ages = "Il candelabro delle sette lucerne, usanza peculiare de' Giudei, che perseverò fin à tempi nostri : la menorà a Roma e in Europa, dalla tarda antichità al Medioevo / Guido Cornini -- The Menorah during the Renaissance = Sulla menorà nel Rinascimento / Arnold Nesselrath -- The seventeenth century and the Baroque world = Il Seicento e il mondo barocco / Francesco Leone -- The Menorah in Roman Jewish ceremonial ornaments = La menorà negli arredi cerimoniali ebraici romani / Olga Melasecchi The nineteenth century : neoclassical ethos, romantic pathos, the Italian Risorgimento, realism, and its abandonment in favor of symbolism = L'Ottocento : l'ethos neoclassico, il pathos romantico, le istanze risorgimentali italiane, il vero e il suo superamento verso il simbolismo di fine secolo / Francesco Leone -- The Menorah in contemporary art = La menorà nel contemporaneo / Giorgia Calò
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