«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.
Bidel • Security • Representation of kings • Sufi commentary • Urartu • Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës (IMK) • Poetry • Gregory the Illuminator • Representation of architecture • Privateers • Visual anthropology • Armenian Genocide • Albania • Global Middle Ages • Pathos in painting • Rum Seljuk caravanserais • Armenian art • Ottoman ceramics • Kingdom of Vaspurakan • Late antiquity • Stalin • Conservation • Hunting scenes • Language, and computers • Communism • Haban faience • Sertavul Han • Iran • Turkey • Ottoman inscriptions • Byzantine architecture • Orhan Pamuk • Acceptus magister • Bektashi dervishes • Apulia • Icons • Gianclaudio Macchiarella • Ashik • Balkans • Ibn Arabi • Qusayr ‘Amra • Italian-Ottoman relations • Artists’ signature • Inscriptions • Armenian Revolutionary Movement • Mendicant Orders • Long manched lute saz • Quran • Balkan art • Spiritual dimension • Bahmani • Albanian architecture • Restoration • Safavid painting • Neoliberalism and academia • Anti-seismic devices • Armory school • Despotate of Epirus • Qur’an • Yahya Kemal • Paradise • Heaven • Religious architecture • Tombstone • Islamic iconography • Administration • Evliya Çelebi • Italian culture in the USA • Siponto • Adriatic culture • Church of St • Armenia • Foreign affairs • Marble • Bekthasism • Database for monuments • Sufi music • UNESCO • Candiana pottery • Canosa • Spolia • David magister • Bathhouses decoration • Testing • Bathhouses • Column capitals • Ani • Deccan • Pedagogy • Early medieval sculpture • Cultural heritage • Dervishes lodges • Medieval wall paintings • Bilingual inscriptions • Armenian architecture • Monte Sant’Angelo • Symbolism • Islamic aesthetics • Early Islam • Hierarchy • Montage • Birds • Theodoros Poulakis • Photojournalism