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