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

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