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

Thema codes AGA • JBCC • NHD • 1D • 1FB • 1FKA

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