In Memoriam: Fr Michele Piccirillo, ofm (1944-2008): Celebrating his life and work

By Claudine Dauphin

Includes many lavish colour photo plates. Contents: 1) Fr Michele Piccirillo, ofm: the Gardener of the Lord. The Mosaics of Paradise Regained (Claudine Dauphin); 2) Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda: Fr Michele Piccirillo, ofm, Pioneer of Byzantine Archaeology in the Middle East (Basema Hamarneh); 3) Mount Nebo: the Restoration Project of the Memorial of Moses. Interviewing the Team at Work: Gianfranco Micalizzi, Carmelo Pappalardo, ofm, and Franco Sciorilli (Rosario Pierri, ofm); 4) Giving life in 3D to the Church of Saint Stephen Complex at Umm al- Rasas (Claudine Dauphin and Qutaiba al-Dasouqi); 5) The Madaba Mosaic School and the Bilad al-Sham Project (Catreena Hamarneh) 6) The Renewal of Mosaic Art in the Palestinian Occupied Territory (Osama Hamdan and Carla Benelli); 7) Notes depigraphie christo-palestinienne de Jordanie (Emile Puech); 8) A Glance at the Conservation Work in the Old Core of Sabastiya (Nablus) (Osama Hamdan); 9) (In Arabic) 10) The Museum of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (Fr Eugenio Alliata, ofm); 11) Il Ruolo della Custodia di Terra Santa nell Avvio e Sviluppo dell Artigianato della Madreperla a Betlemme (Carla Benelli); 12) Fr Michele Piccirillo and the Massolini Calendar (Giampietro Rigosa).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407308157
• ISBN13: 9781407308159
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 2.7" x 3.7"