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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  • Mattia Guidetti - Universität Wien, Österreich - email
  • Sara Mondini - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

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

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