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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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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/10.4324/9781315237428-11

Within 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