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PROF Anna Contadini's Outputs (105)

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)..

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 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

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.