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