VISUAL THEOLOGY

Plaque with the Creation of Animals, ca. 1084, South Italian; modern Amalfi (Campania), ivory, (10.8 x 10.8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York). This ivory plaque comes from a set of some fifty ivories showing scenes from the Bible. Forming an extensive narrative, they may have decorated a large piece of church furnishing, perhaps the enclosure before the altar, for the Cathedral of Salerno dedicated in 1084.