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

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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