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