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

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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