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

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

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