Eurasian Studies

Balkans, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Notebooks

«A mari usque ad mare»

Visual and material culture from the Adriatic to India

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  • Mattia Guidetti - Universität Wien, Österreich - email
  • Sara Mondini - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

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.

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

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