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