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

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

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