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
All Outputs (46)
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
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_005This 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/10.4324/9781003105657-3In 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
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
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
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.ch17From 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.
Text and Image on Middle Eastern Objects: The Palmer Cup in Context (2017)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2017). Text and Image on Middle Eastern Objects: The Palmer Cup in Context. In P. Shirley, & D. Thornton (Eds.), A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum (124-145). British Museum Research Publications 212
Threads of Ornament in the Style World of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (2016)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2016). Threads of Ornament in the Style World of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. In G. Necipoğlu, & A. Payne (Eds.), Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local (290-308 and notes on pp. 397). Princeton University Press
Volando sopra il Mediterraneo: il Grifone di Pisa e aspetti della metallistica islamica medievale (2016)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2016). Volando sopra il Mediterraneo: il Grifone di Pisa e aspetti della metallistica islamica medievale. In A. N. Eslami (Ed.), Genova, una capitale del Mediterraneo tra Bisanzio e il mondo islamico. Storia, arte e architettura (75-88). Bruno Mondadori
Facets of Light: The Case of Rock Crystals (2015)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2015). Facets of Light: The Case of Rock Crystals. In J. Bloom, & S. Blair (Eds.), God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth. Light in Islamic Art and Culture. Yale University Press, pp. 121-155
Picturing music in Islamic art (2014)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2014). Picturing music in Islamic art. In R. Ward (Ed.), Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq (46-51). The Courtauld Gallery with Paul Holberton Publishing
L'Ornamento nel Mondo Ottomano e nell'Italia del Rinascimento: Trasmissione e Congiunzione (2014)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2014). L'Ornamento nel Mondo Ottomano e nell'Italia del Rinascimento: Trasmissione e Congiunzione. In A. Naser Eslami (Ed.), Incontri di Civiltà nel Mediterraneo. L'Impero Ottomano e l'Italia del Rinascimento. Storia, Arte e Architettura (57-74). Olschki Editore
Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century (2013)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2013). Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century. In A. Contadini, & C. Norton (Eds.), The Renaissance and the Ottoman World (23-61). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315237428-11Within the context of a research project that seeks to explore new concepts and, possibly, arrive at more productive paradigms, it is interesting to observe the degree to which the study of the transfer of artefacts between the Islamic Middle East an... Read More about Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century.
Translocation and Transformation: Some Middle Eastern Objects in Europe (2010)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2010). Translocation and Transformation: Some Middle Eastern Objects in Europe. In L. E. Saurma-Jeltsch, & A. Eisenbeiss (Eds.), The Power of Things and the Flow of Cultural Transformation. Art and Culture between Europe and Asia (42-65). Deutscher Kunstverlag
Ayyubid Illustrated Manuscripts and their North Jaziran and `Abbasid Neighbours (2009)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2009). Ayyubid Illustrated Manuscripts and their North Jaziran and `Abbasid Neighbours. In R. Hillenbrand, & S. Auld (Eds.), Ayyubid Jerusalem. The Holy City in Context 1187-1250 (179-194, and col. ills. 17). Altajir Trust