All Outputs (106)

"'The Work is Blessed, Unique': The Fatimid Silver Casket of Sadaqa b. Yusuf" (2025)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2025). "'The Work is Blessed, Unique': The Fatimid Silver Casket of Sadaqa b. Yusuf". In G. Bilotto, F. Daftary, & S. Jiwa (Eds.), Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: history, material culture politics and religion (335-371). I.B. Tauris and IIS

This paper contributes to the literature on Fatimid art and its connections with the broader Mediterranean art, through a focused study of an important and beautiful silver casket.

Vetri Islamici per l'Europa: il caso dei bicchieri di Edvige (2025)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2025). Vetri Islamici per l'Europa: il caso dei bicchieri di Edvige. In Nuovi percorsi tra passato e futuro. 5 mostre per 1 sistema museale. Mandragora

Bologna e l'Arte Islamica - Bologna and Islamic Art (2024)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2024). Bologna e l'Arte Islamica - Bologna and Islamic Art. In A. Contadini (Ed.), Conoscenza e Liberta'. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (6-35). SAGEP Editori

Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual). (2024)
Book
Contadini, A. (2024). Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual). SAGEP Editori

Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna è il catalogo della mostra (dal 20 aprile al 15 settembre 2024) a cura di Anna Contadini. Frutto di un mirato collezionismo, gli oggetti esposti provengono da una vasta fascia d... Read More about Conoscenza e Libertà. Arte Islamica al Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna (bilingual)..

The Future of Traditions. Writing Pictures: Contemporary Art from the Middle East (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Contadini, A., & Issa, R. (2023). The Future of Traditions. Writing Pictures: Contemporary Art from the Middle East. 12 January 2023 - 25 March 2023

Two Illustrated Mamluk Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana: the al-Jāḥiẓ Kitāb al-Ḥayawān and the Ibn Buṭlān Risālat Da‘wat al-Aṭibbā’ (2023)
Journal Article
Contadini, A. (2023). Two Illustrated Mamluk Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana: the al-Jāḥiẓ Kitāb al-Ḥayawān and the Ibn Buṭlān Risālat Da‘wat al-Aṭibbā’. Orientalia Ambrosiana, VIII, 33-66

The Middle Eastern Intellectual and Artistic Context at the Time of Ariosto (2022)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2022). The Middle Eastern Intellectual and Artistic Context at the Time of Ariosto. In M. Casari, M. Preti, & M. Wyatt (Eds.), Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts of the Orlando Furioso (265-311). Florence, Officina Libraria

Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context (2022)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2022). Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context. In E. Brac de la Perrière, A. El Khiari, & A. Vernay-Nouri (Eds.), Le périples de Kalila et Dimna. Quand les fables voyagent dans la littérature et les arts du monde islamique (95-129). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004498143_005

This article seeks to situate early Arabic illustrated Kalila wa Dimna manuscripts with regard to both text and image, and to position them within the broader context of thirteenth and fourteenth century Arab painting. The transmission of the various... Read More about Intertextual Animals: Illustrated Kalila wa-Dimna Manuscripts in Context.

Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2022)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2022). Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe. In I. Dolezalek, & M. Guidetti (Eds.), Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe, Studies in Art Historiography (23-54). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105657-3

In this article, I shall discuss the changing perceptions of particular objects, the advances in scholarship that may produce such changes, and whether any such developments in scholarship can be attributable to Enlightenment thought. In post-Renaiss... Read More about Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

Wondrous Animals: Zoomorphic Metal Figures from al-Andalus (2020)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2020). Wondrous Animals: Zoomorphic Metal Figures from al-Andalus. In J. Olchawa (Ed.), Löwe, Wölfin, Greif: Monumentale Tierbronzen im Mittelalter (213-236). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110621013-010

La filosofia e l'arte tra mondo islamico e mondo cristiano: il caso di Lucca e la sua storia (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A. (2020, November). La filosofia e l'arte tra mondo islamico e mondo cristiano: il caso di Lucca e la sua storia. Presented at Bright-Night 2020. Notte Europea delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori, Università degli Studi di Siena

Scholarship and Art: Visual and Intellectual Encounters across the Mediterranean (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A. (2020, October). Scholarship and Art: Visual and Intellectual Encounters across the Mediterranean. Presented at ISA Lecture - Institute for Advanced Studies, Bologna University, Bologna University

The Fascination of Islam (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A., & de Lara, J. (2020, May). The Fascination of Islam. Presented at Arts in Isolation, Online

Professor Anna Contadini takes us through an evocative journey to discover the fascination and curiosity that Islamic art and intellectual thought inspired in the pre-modern European thinkers and scholars, and how that fascination—led by wonder and a... Read More about The Fascination of Islam.

The Lucca Falcon (2019)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2019). The Lucca Falcon. In A. Contadini (Ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean (419-448). Pacini Editore

The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: History, Art and Technology (2019)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2019). The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: History, Art and Technology. In A. Contadini (Ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean (197-256). Pacini Editore

Acoustic Automata (2019)
Book Chapter
Camber, R., & Contadini, A. (2019). Acoustic Automata. In A. Contadini (Ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean (63-75). Pacini Editore

'Cultural and Artistic Connections Between the Middle East and Europe During the Renaissance' - Keynote address at the Collége de France, Paris - 7 February 2019 (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A. (2019, February). 'Cultural and Artistic Connections Between the Middle East and Europe During the Renaissance' - Keynote address at the Collége de France, Paris - 7 February 2019. Presented at Keynote address at the Collége de France, Collége de France, Paris

The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean (2018)
Book
Contadini, A. (Ed.). (2018). The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean. Pacini Editore

Presenting the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion (2018)
Book Chapter
Camber, R., & Contadini, A. (2018). Presenting the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. In A. Contadini (Ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean (19-34). Pacini Editore

Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie (2017)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2017). Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie. In G. Necipoğlu, & F. B. Flood (Eds.), A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 1 (431-452). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069218.ch17

From the reports of travelers and historians, people learn of the crafting of beautiful rock crystal and metalwork objects in the Cairo bazaar and, during the later Mamluk period, of beautiful gilded and enameled glass being produced in commercial ar... Read More about Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie.