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PROF Anna Contadini's Outputs (133)

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)..

Reimagining the Feminine Self: Strategies of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Female Artists (2024)
Thesis
Shahandeh, K. Reimagining the Feminine Self: Strategies of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Female Artists. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the works, produced over the last thirty years of around fifty contemporary Iranian female artists, both living in Iran and the diaspora. The artists discussed, mostly were either very young or were born after the Iranian Revolut... Read More about Reimagining the Feminine Self: Strategies of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Female Artists.

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.

A Study of the Zoomorphic Incense Burners of Medieval Khurasan, c. 441–597/1050–1200 (2022)
Thesis
Kelly, E. C. A Study of the Zoomorphic Incense Burners of Medieval Khurasan, c. 441–597/1050–1200. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis researches the zoomorphic incense burners (ZIBs) produced in medieval Khurasan between c.441-597/1050-1200, to understand their role, function and meaning in that multicultural environment. A database is established, with defined classifi... Read More about A Study of the Zoomorphic Incense Burners of Medieval Khurasan, c. 441–597/1050–1200.

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 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.

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 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

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