Architecture Ambone

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Campania (made)

This marble fragment showing two lions devouring a sheep was made in Campania, Southern Italy, in about 1200. This fragment probably formed part of an ambone: the exact position would have been at the front of the ambone, under the feet of a figure supporting the lectern. A complete ambone of this type, dating to around 1200, is in the church of San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello, near Salerno.

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Category	Sculpture
Object type	Architecture ambone
Materials and techniques	Marble
Brief description	Architecture ambone two lions devouring a sheep; marble and lead inlay Italian ca. 1200.
Physical description	Fragment showing two lions devouring a sheep. The sheep's head and the left paw of the lion on the right are missing. The eyes of the lions are inlaid with lead.
Dimensions	Height: 14cm Width: 11.5cm
Subjects depicted	Sheep Lion
Summary	This marble fragment showing two lions devouring a sheep was made in Campania, Southern Italy, in about 1200. This fragment probably formed part of an ambone: the exact position would have been at the front of the ambone, under the feet of a figure supporting the lectern. A complete ambone of this type, dating to around 1200, is in the church of San Giovanni del Toro in Ravello, near Salerno.
Bibliographic references	Pope-Hennessy, John. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, 1964. cat. no. 12. fig. no. 27. Salvini, Roberto. Il chiostro di Monreale e la sculptura romania in Sicilia. Palermo, 1962. fig. 96. Bertaux, E. L'art dans i'Italie méridionale. Paris; Rome, 1968. vol. I. p. 507. fig. 225. Williamson, Paul. Catalogue of Romanesque Sculpture. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1983. no. 27.
Collection	Sculpture Collection
Accession number	A.113-1929

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Record created	June 24, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O314322/architecture-ambone-unknown/

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