«A mari usque ad mare»
Visual and material culture from the Adriatic to India
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abstract
This volume offers an academic homage to Professor Gianclaudio Macchiarella and is at the same time a gathering of close friends and colleagues in memory of a Maestro and a friend. A year after his death, the intention here is to bear witness to the scholar in all his versatility and complexity, with even informal tones that are befitting of a great affection: that of colleagues and friends who collaborated and participated in his missions, who clashed and confronted with him, and shared fragments of life, important for their training and growth. The title chosen for the volume 'A mari usque ad mare' is intended to evoke the spatial extent of the interventions of the authors who took part in this publication. A breadth that is a reflection of Gianclaudio Macchiarella's studies, which from an initial interest in the Italian early Middle Ages, then turned to the Christians of the East, then Islamic art and architecture, the restoration and preservation of cultural heritage, and finally, in recent years, India and the Balkans.
Armenian architecture • Tombstone • Albanian architecture • Rum Seljuk caravanserais • Marble • Apulia • Symbolism • Turkey • Heaven • Deccan • Hunting scenes • Pedagogy • Paradise • Cultural heritage • Icons • Inscriptions • Armenian art • Church of St • Mendicant Orders • Armory school • Bathhouses decoration • Haban faience • Bekthasism • Gregory the Illuminator • Siponto • Pathos in painting • Orhan Pamuk • Restoration • Bidel • Stalin • Sufi music • Byzantine architecture • Sertavul Han • Montage • Dervishes lodges • Spiritual dimension • Privateers • Monte Sant’Angelo • Hierarchy • Anti-seismic devices • Qur’an • Islamic iconography • Albania • Column capitals • Medieval wall paintings • Canosa • Representation of kings • Adriatic culture • Communism • Balkan art • Conservation • Poetry • Acceptus magister • Birds • Late antiquity • Urartu • Armenia • Bathhouses • Italian culture in the USA • Bilingual inscriptions • Ottoman inscriptions • Religious architecture • Representation of architecture • Early medieval sculpture • Kingdom of Vaspurakan • Italian-Ottoman relations • Candiana pottery • Visual anthropology • Gianclaudio Macchiarella • Foreign affairs • Global Middle Ages • Iran • Bektashi dervishes • Ottoman ceramics • Islamic aesthetics • Photojournalism • UNESCO • Administration • Armenian Genocide • Safavid painting • Balkans • Testing • Quran • Ashik • Early Islam • Neoliberalism and academia • David magister • Despotate of Epirus • Artists’ signature • Qusayr ‘Amra • Database for monuments • Yahya Kemal • Long manched lute saz • Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës (IMK) • Security • Armenian Revolutionary Movement • Theodoros Poulakis • Spolia • Ibn Arabi • Sufi commentary • Ani • Evliya Çelebi • Language, and computers • Bahmani