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