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Valentina Laviola

Adjunct professor

Department of Cultural Heritage

Research

Keywords: Islamic Art and Archaeology Islamic Epigraphy brick and stucco Islamic metalwork funerary sites

The decorative use of stucco in the 'Red Sea Style' houses of the Tihama region (Yemen).

Collections of Iranian finds preserved in Rome. 

Arabic pseudo-inscriptions in the art and architecture of south-eastern Italy (12th-13th c.).

The iconography of wailers in Islamic illuminated manuscripts: religious prescriptions and social perception.

The brick and stucco architectural decoration from the Eastern Iranian lands.

The ziyārāt documented in Ghazni by the Italian Archaeological Mission in Afghanistan: analysis of a religious, social and territorial phenomenon. 

Iranian metalwork, in particular from the 9th to the 13th century.

Artisans' signatures from Iranian metalwork (10th-13th c.).