Summary: Published on the occasion of the exhibition La Menorą. Culto, storia e mito (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.

Contents: A. Di Castro, The Reason for the Exhibition ; F. Leone, A "Part" for the "Whole" - Reality and Myth of the Menorah from Antiquity to the Present ; A. Spagnoletto, The Menorah - Energy of a Symbol ; P.F. Fumagalli, The Menorah, the Dawn of Messianic Redemption in the Christian Symbolic Interpretation ; E. Prinzivalli, The Symbology of the Menorah in the First Three Centuries of Christianity ; M. Caffiero, The Magic of the Menorah in the Modern Era - From an Object of Devotion to the Kabbalah ; S. Sabar, The Menorah and Its Symbolism in Jewish Art over the Ages ; S. Rocca, In the Shadow of the Temple - Depicting the Menorah in Ancient Art ; G. Cornini, "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 ; A. Nesselrath, The Menorah during the Renaissance ; F. Leone, The Seventeenth Century and the Baroque World ; O. Melasecchi, The Menorah in Roman Jewish Ceremonial Ornaments ; F. Leone, The Nineteenth Century - Neoclassical Ethod, Romantic Pathos, the Italian Risorgimento, Realism, and Its Abandonment in Favor of Symbolism ; G. Calo, The Menorah in Contemporary Art ; Work Entries.

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