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

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