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

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

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