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

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/978-88-6969-085-3 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-085-3 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-086-0 | Published July 19, 2016 | Language it

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