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

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