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Authored Books

Contadini, Anna (2012) A World of Beasts: A Thirteenth-Century Illustrated Arabic Book on Animals (the Kitāb Na‘t al-Ḥayawān) in the Ibn Bakhtīshū‘ Tradition. Leiden; Boston: Brill.

Contadini, Anna, Bayani, M. and Stanley, T. (1999) The Decorated Word: Qu'rans of the 17th to 19th centuries in The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art. London: Azimuth Editions and OUP. (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art)

Contadini, Anna (1998) Fatimid Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Leiden: V & A.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Contadini, Anna, ed. (2018) The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean. Pisa: Pacini Editore.

Contadini, Anna, ed. (2017) Celebrating Art and Music: The SOAS Collections. London: SOAS; Taylor McKenzie.

Contadini, Anna and Norton, Claire, eds. (2013) The Renaissance and the Ottoman World. Farnham, UK: Ashgate.

Contadini, Anna, ed. (2010) Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts (revised edition). Leiden: Brill. (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East)

Contadini, Anna, ed. (2007) Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill. (Handbuch der Orientalistik)

Contadini, Anna, ed. (2007) Objects of Instruction: Treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies. London: SOAS.

Behrens-Abouseif, Doris and Contadini, Anna, eds. (2004) Essays in Honor of J. M. Rogers. Leiden: Brill. (Muqarnas)

Contadini, Anna and Burnett, Charles, eds. (1999) Islam and the Italian Renaissance. London: The Warburg Institute. (Warburg Institute Colloquia)

Book Chapters

Contadini, Anna (2020) 'Wondrous Animals: Zoomorphic Metal Figures from al-Andalus.' In: Olchawa, Joanna, (ed.), Löwe, Wölfin, Greif: Monumentale Tierbronzen im Mittelalter. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 213-236. (Object Studies in Art History v 4)

Contadini, Anna (2020) 'Changing Perceptions of Middle Eastern Objects and Cultures in Eighteenth-Century Europe.' In: Dolezalek, Isabelle and Guidetti, Mattia, (eds.), Heritage Revisited: Rediscovering Islamic Objects in Enlightenment Europe, Studies in Art Historiography. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming)

Contadini, Anna (2020) 'The Middle Eastern Intellectual and Artistic Context at the Time of Ariosto.' In: Casari, Mario, Preti, Monica and Wyatt, Michael, (eds.), Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts of the Orlando Furioso. I Tatti - Harvard Research Centre for Renaissance Studies: Florence, Officina Libraria. (Forthcoming)

Camber, Richard and Contadini, Anna (2019) 'Acoustic Automata.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean. Pisa: Pacini Editore, pp. 63-75.

Contadini, Anna (2019) 'The Lucca Falcon.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean. Pisa: Pacini Editore, pp. 419-448.

Contadini, Anna (2019) 'The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion: History, Art and Technology.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean. Pisa: Pacini Editore, pp. 197-256.

Camber, Richard and Contadini, Anna (2018) 'Presenting the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), The Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. Metalwork, Art, and Technology in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean. Pisa: Pacini Editore, pp. 19-34.

Contadini, Anna (2017) 'Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie.' In: Necipoglu, Gülru and Flood, Finbarr Barry, (eds.), A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 1. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 431-452.

Contadini, Anna (2017) 'Text and Image on Middle Eastern Objects: ​The Palmer Cup  ​in Context.' In: Shirley, Pippa and Thornton, Dora, (eds.), A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum. London: British Museum Research Publications 212, pp. 124-145.

Howard, Keith (2017) 'Blowing and Hitting: Music for Korean Envoys.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), Celebrating Art and Music: The SOAS Collections. London: SOAS University of London, pp. 218-231.

Durán, Lucy (2017) 'The kora – from West Africa to the world stage.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), Celebrating Art and Music: the SOAS collections. London: SOAS University of London, pp. 12-19.

Contadini, Anna (2016) 'Threads of Ornament in the Style World of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries.' In: Necipoğlu, Gülru and Payne, Alina, (eds.), Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 290-308 and notes on pp. 397.

Contadini, Anna (2016) 'Volando sopra il Mediterraneo: il Grifone di Pisa e aspetti della metallistica islamica medievale.' In: Eslami, Alireza Naser, (ed.), Genova, una capitale del Mediterraneo tra Bisanzio e il mondo islamico. Storia, arte e architettura. Torino: Bruno Mondadori, pp. 75-88.

Contadini, Anna (2015) 'Facets of Light: The Case of Rock Crystals.' In: Bloom, Jonathan and Blair, Sheila, (eds.), God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth. Light in Islamic Art and Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 121-155.

Contadini, Anna (2014) 'Picturing music in Islamic art.' In: Ward, Rachel, (ed.), Court and Craft: A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq. London: The Courtauld Gallery with Paul Holberton Publishing, pp. 46-51.

Contadini, Anna (2014) '"L'Ornamento nel Mondo Ottomano e nell'Italia del Rinascimento: Trasmissione e Congiunzione".' In: Eslami, N. Alireza (ed.), Incontri di Civiltà nel Mediterraneo. L'Impero Ottomano e l'Italia del Rinascimento. Storia, Arte e Architettura. Firenze: Olschki Editore, pp. 57-74. (Biblioteca dell'"Archivum Romanicum", Serie I)

Contadini, Anna (2013) 'Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century.' In: Contadini, Anna and Norton, Claire, (eds.), The Renaissance and the Ottoman World. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, pp. 23-61.

Wright, Owen (2013) 'Turning a deaf ear.' In: Contadini, Anna and Norton, Claire, (eds.), The Renaissance and the Ottoman world. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 143-165.

Contadini, Anna (2010) '“Translocation and Transformation: Some Middle Eastern Objects in Europe”.' In: The Power of Things and the Flow of Cultural Transformation. Art and Culture between Europe and Asia, ed. by Lieselotte E. Saurma-Jeltsch and Anja Eisenbeiss. Berlin-Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, pp. 42-65.

Contadini, Anna (2009) 'Ayyubid Illustrated Manuscripts and their North Jaziran and `Abbasid Neighbours.' In: Hillenbrand, R. and Auld, S., (eds.), Ayyubid Jerusalem. The Holy City in Context 1187-1250. London: Altajir Trust, 179-194, and col. ills. 17-37..

Contadini, Anna (2008) 'The Zoological-Medicinal Material in the Arcadian Library Manuscript.' In: Burnett, C., (ed.), Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples: Medical Remedies between Three Faiths in Twelfth-Century Spain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 133-159.

Contadini, Anna (2007) 'The Manuscript as a Whole.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), Arab Painting. Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts. Leiden: Brill, pp. 1-17. (Handbuch der Orientalistik)

Branfoot, Crispin (2007) 'South Asia and the Himalayas.' In: Contadini, Anna, (ed.), Objects of Instruction: Treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies. London: SOAS, pp. 68-74.

Contadini, Anna (2006) 'Le stoffe islamiche nel Rinascimento italiano tra il XV e il XVI secolo.' In: Degl’Innocenti, D, (ed.), Intrecci Mediterranei. Il tessuto come dizionario di rapporti economici, culturali e sociali. Prato: Museo del Tessuto, pp. 28-35.

Contadini, Anna (2006) 'Middle Eastern Objects.' In: Ajmar-Wollheim, M and Dennis, F, (eds.), At Home in Renaissance Italy. London: V&A Publications, pp. 308-321.

Contadini, Anna (2005) 'Musical Beasts: the Swan-Phoenix in the Ibn Bakhtishu‘ Bestiaries.' In: O’Kane, B., (ed.), The Iconography of Islamic Art – Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 93-101.

Contadini, Anna (2004) 'The Arts of the Book.' In: "Mamluk Art", Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition. Leiden: Brill.

Contadini, Anna, Camber, R. and Northover, P. (2002) 'Beasts that Roared: The Pisa Griffin and the New York Lion.' In: Ball, W. and Harrow, L., (eds.), Cairo to Kabul. Afghan and Islamic Studies Presented to Ralph Pinder-Wilson. London: Melisende, pp. 65-83.

Contadini, Anna (2002) 'Travelling Pattern: a Qur'anic illumination and its secular source.' In: Canby, S, (ed.), Safavid Art and Architecture. London: British Museum Press, pp. 58-66.

Contadini, Anna (2000) 'Le arti del periodo Fatimide.' In: Cassanelli, R, (ed.), Il Mediterraneo e L'Arte nel Medioevo. Milan: Jaca Book, pp. 118-137.

Contadini, Anna (2000) 'Le arti in Spagna e Marocco nei periodi almoravide e almoade.' In: Cassanelli, R, (ed.), Il Mediterraneo e L'Arte nel Medioevo. Milan: Jaca Books, pp. 38-61.

Contadini, Anna (2000) 'Ugo Monneret de Villard - A Master of the Italian Orientalist School.' In: Vernoit, S, (ed.), Discovering Islamic Art. Scholars,Collectors and Collections 1850-1950. London: I.B. Tauris (London), pp. 156-162.

Contadini, Anna (1999) 'Artistic Contacts: Present Scholarship and Future Tasks.' In: Contadini, A. and Burnett, C., (eds.), Islam and the Italian Renaissance. Warburg Institute Colloquia. London: The Warburg Institute (London), pp. 1-65.

Contadini, Anna (1999) 'The Cutting Edge: Problems of History, Identification and Technique of Fatimid Rock Crystals.' In: Barrucand, M, (ed.), L’Egypte fatimide. Son art et son histoire: actes du colloque organisé à Paris les 28, 29 et 30 mai 1998. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, pp. 319-329.

Contadini, Anna (1998) 'Des arts décoratifs florissants.' In: Barrucand, M, (ed.), Trésors fatimides du Caire. Paris: Institute du Monde Arabe, 74-84, and entries 23, 26, 54, 55, 82, 85, 87, 89, 100, 155, 156, 161, 203, 205, 208..

Contadini, Anna (1998) 'Poetry on Enamelled Glass: The Palmer Cup in the British Museum.' In: Ward, R, (ed.), Gilded and Enamelled Glass from the Middle East. London: British Museum Press, pp. 56-60.

Contadini, Anna (1997) 'Bone, Ivory, and Shell: Artifacts of the Byzantine and Islamic Periods.' In: Meyers, Eric M., (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 348-350.

Contadini, Anna (1997) 'Murcia.' In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani, pp. 614-615.

Contadini, Anna (1996) 'The Horse in Two Manuscripts of Ibn Bakhtishu`'s Kitab Manafi` al-Hayawan.' In: Alexander, D., (ed.), Furusiyya. Vol. 1 - The horse in the art of the Near East. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: The King Abdulaziz Public Library, pp. 142-147.

Contadini, Anna (1995) 'Contributions on "Four chess pieces (7.49)", "Ewer (7.50)", "Textile with embroidered calligraphic band (7.51)", Incense burner (7.57)" and "Minbar for the Sultan Qa'itbay (7.67)".' In: Phillips, T., (ed.), Africa - The Art of a Continent. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 582-584, 588, 595.

Contadini, Anna (1995) 'Islamic Ivory Chess Pieces, Draughtsmen and Dice in the Ashmolean Museum.' In: Allan, J, (ed.), Islamic Art in the Ashmolean Museum; Oxford Studies in Islamic Art. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 30-51.

Contadini, Anna (1993) 'La Spagna dal II/VIII al VII/XIII Secolo.' In: Curatola, G, (ed.), Eredita' dell'Islam - Arte islamica in Italia. Milan: Silvana Editoriale, pp. 105-132.

Contadini, Anna and Carboni, Stefano (1990) 'An illustrated copy of al-Qazwini's "The Wonders of Creation".' In: Prideaux, S, (ed.), Sotheby's Art at Auction: 1989-1990. London: Sotheby's Publications, pp. 228-233.

Contadini, Anna (1989) '‘Cuoridoro’: tecnica e decorazione di cuoi dorati veneziani e italiani con influssi islamici.' In: Grube, E.J., (ed.), Arte veneziana e arte islamica : atti del Primo simposio internazionale sull'arte veneziana e l'arte islamica. Venice: Edizioni l’Altra Riva, pp. 231-251.

Contadini, Anna (1989) 'Simone Assemani, professore di lingue orientali a Padova.' In: Gallotta, A and Marazzi, U, (eds.), La Conoscenza dell'Asia e dell'Africa in Italia nei secoli XVIII e XIX. Volume III. Tomo I. Napoli: Istituto Universitario Orientale, pp. 209-245.

Journal Article

Contadini, Anna (2007) 'A Jewel of Mughal Painting: The SOAS Anvar-i Suhayli Manuscript.' Orientations, 38 (8). pp. 51-56.

Contadini, Anna (2006) 'A Question in Arab Painting: The Ibn al-Sufi Manuscript in Tehran and its Art-Historical Connections.' Muqarnas, 23. pp. 47-84.

Contadini, Anna (2005) 'Fatimid Ivories Within a Mediterranean Culture.' The Ivories of Muslim Spain, The Journal of the David Collection, ed. by K. von Folsach and J. Mayer, 2 (2). pp. 226-247.

Contadini, Anna (2004) 'A Wonderful World: Folios from a Dispersed Manuscript of the Nuzhat-nama.' In Behrens-Abouseif, D. and Contadini, A. (eds), Essays in Honor of J. M. Rogers, Muqarnas, 21. pp. 95-120.

Contadini, Anna (2003) 'A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitāb naʿt al-hayawān (British Library, or. 2784).' Muqarnas, vol. 2. pp. 17-33.

Contadini, Anna (1995) 'Islamic Manuscripts and the ARCH Foundation.' Apollo (396). pp. 29-30.

Contadini, Anna (1994) 'A Figurative Islamic Ivory Chess Piece.' Scacchi e Scienze Applicate, 12 (14). pp. 3-4.

Contadini, Anna (1994) 'The Ibn Buhtishu` Bestiary Tradition. The text and Its Sources.' Medicina nei Secoli Arte e Scienza, 6 (2). pp. 349-364.

Contadini, Anna (1989) 'The Kitab Manafi` al-Hayawan in the Escorial Library.' Islamic Art, 3. pp. 33-57.

Contadini, Anna (1988) 'Due pannelli di cuoio dorato nel Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna.' Annali di Cà Foscari, Rivista della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell'Università di Venezia, Serie Orientale, XXVII (3). pp. 127-142.

Contadini, Anna (1986) 'Note sul Kitab Manafi` al-Hayawan dell'Escorial.' Annali di Cà Foscari, Rivista della Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere dell'Università di Venezia, Serie Orientale, XXV (3). pp. 109-121.

Conference or Workshop Items

Contadini, Anna (2020) La filosofia e l'arte tra mondo islamico e mondo cristiano: il caso di Lucca e la sua storia. In: Bright-Night 2020. Notte Europea delle Ricercatrici e dei Ricercatori.

Contadini, Anna (2020) Scholarship and Art: Visual and Intellectual Encounters across the Mediterranean. In: ISA Lecture - Institute for Advanced Studies, Bologna University, 27 October 2020.

Contadini, Anna and de Lara, Juan (2020) The Fascination of Islam. In: Arts in Isolation.

Contadini, Anna (2019) 'Cultural and Artistic Connections Between the Middle East and Europe During the Renaissance' - Keynote address at the Collége de France, Paris - 7 February 2019. In: Keynote address at the Collége de France, 7 February 2019, Collége de France, Paris.

Contadini, Anna (2013) Facets of Light: The Case of Rock Crystals. Fifth Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art. In: The fifth biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth: Light in Islamic Art and Culture, Doha (Qatar).

Contadini, Anna (2013) Transforming Beauty: Artistic & Cultural Contacts Between The Middle East & Europe. In: Professorial Inaugural Lecture.

Contadini, Anna (2013) Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion. In: Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion, 14 February 2013, SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre.

Contadini, Anna (2012) The Pisa Griffin: Explaining the Griffin. In: Anna Contadini (Project Director), The Pisa Griffin Project, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa.

Contadini, Anna (2012) The Pisa Griffin: Studying art in 3D. In: Anna Contadini (Project Director), The Pisa Griffin Project, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa.

Contadini, Anna (2012) Moves in the Abstract: Chess Pieces of the Middle East. In: Charles K. Wilkinson Lecture Series, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Contadini, Anna (2006) The Renaissance and The Ottoman World. In: The Renaissance and The Ottoman World, 26-27 April 2006, The Warburg Institute and SOAS.

Contadini, Anna (2004) Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts. In: Arab Painting: Text and Image in Illustrated Arabic Manuscripts.

Contadini, Anna (1996) Islam and the Italian Renaissance. In: Islam and the Italian Renaissance, 15-16 March 1996, The Warburg Institute and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Contadini, Anna (1996) Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey and Europe. In: Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey and Europe, 21 September 1996, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.

Book Reviews

Contadini, Anna (2010) 'Review of Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought, Harvard University Press, 2008.' Speculum . pp. 173-175.

Contadini, Anna (2009) 'Review of Marco Spallanzani, Oriental Rugs in Renaissance Florence. Florence: S.P.E.S., 2007.' The Burlington Magazine, 151 (1270). p. 35.

Contadini, Anna (2001) 'Review of K. Adahl and M. Ahlund, 'Islamic Art Collections. An International Survey'.' Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2 (2). pp. 270-271.

Contadini, Anna (1997) 'Review of S. Guthrie, 'Arab Social Life in the Middle Ages. An Illustrated Study', London 1995.' The Burlington Magazine . p. 558.

Contadini, Anna (1997) 'Review of G. Goodwin, 'Sinan. Ottoman Architecture and Its Value Today', London 1993.' The Burlington Magazine . p. 205.

Contadini, Anna (1997) 'Review of Robert Hillenbrand, 'Islamic Architecture. Form, function and meaning', Edinburgh 1994.' The Burlington Magazine . pp. 205-206.

Contadini, Anna (1997) 'Review of T. Pérez Higuera, 'Objetos e imagenes de al-Andalus'.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 60 (1). pp. 136-137.

Contadini, Anna (1995) 'Review of Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, 'The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250-1800', Yale University Press 1994.' The Burlington Magazine . pp. 120-121.

Contadini, Anna (1994) 'Review of Dalu Jones (ed.), 'Il Teatro delle Acque', Rome, 1992.' The Burlington Magazine . pp. 113-114.

Shows/Exhibitions

Contadini, Anna (2017) Celebrating Art and Music - The SOAS Collections. Centenary Exhibition, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, 2017. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (2014) The Arts of Southeast Asia from the SOAS Collections. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (2012) Gifts of Recognition: Modern and Contemporary Art from the SOAS Collections. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (2007) At Home in Renaissance Italy. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (2007) Objects of Instruction: Treasures of the School of Oriental and African Studies. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (2005) Intrecci Mediterranei. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (1998) Trésors fatimides du Caire. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (1995) The Ottoman World and Europe. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (1993) Eredità dell'Islam. Arte Islamica in Italia. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Contadini, Anna (1993) Rock Crystal Objects from the V&A Collection. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Other

Contadini, Anna (2014) 'Griffon de Pise.' In: Le Maroc medieval. Un empire de l’Afrique à l’Espagne, edited by Yannick Lintz, Claire Déléry and Bulle Tuil Leonetti,. Paris: Musée du Louvre and Hazan. 154-155, no. 151.

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