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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

Griffon de Pise (2014)
Other
Contadini, A. (2014). Griffon de Pise. Paris

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.

Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A. (2013, February). Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Presented at Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion, SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre

Probably produced within the Islamic Mediterranean in the late eleventh-early twelfth century, the Griffin and the Lion have incised on their body a long inscription in Arabic expressing good wishes. After being captured by the Pisans, the Griffin un... Read More about Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion.

The Pisa Griffin: Explaining the Griffin (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A. (2012, September). The Pisa Griffin: Explaining the Griffin. Presented at Anna Contadini (Project Director), The Pisa Griffin Project, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Pisa

The Pisa Griffin: Studying art in 3D (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A. (2012, September). The Pisa Griffin: Studying art in 3D. Presented at Anna Contadini (Project Director), The Pisa Griffin Project, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Pisa

Gifts of Recognition: Modern and Contemporary Art from the SOAS Collections (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Contadini, A. (2012). Gifts of Recognition: Modern and Contemporary Art from the SOAS Collections. [Exhibition]. 11 July 2012 - 22 September 2012. (Unpublished)

Gifts of Recognition is an exhibition drawing upon the School's remarkably rich but little known artistic collection. Concentrating on modern and contemporary art, it displays a selection of gifts and donations to the School, and constitutes a furthe... Read More about Gifts of Recognition: Modern and Contemporary Art from the SOAS Collections.

Moves in the Abstract: Chess Pieces of the Middle East (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Contadini, A. (2012, January). Moves in the Abstract: Chess Pieces of the Middle East. Presented at Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art