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

Thema codes AGA • JBCC • NHD • 1D • 1FB • 1FKA

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