The Art Of Armenia

Author : Christina Maranci
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190269005

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Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the early eighteenth century C.E. Divided chronologically, it brings into discussion a wide range of media, including architecture, stone sculpture, works in metal, wood, and cloth, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts. Critically, The Art of Armenia presents this material within historical and archaeological contexts, incorporating the results of specialist literature in various languages. It also positions Armenian art within a range of broader comparative contexts including, but not limited to, the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, Byzantium, the Islamic world, Yuan-dynasty China, and seventeenth-century Europe. The Art of Armenia offers students, scholars, and heritage readers of the Armenian community something long desired but never before available: a complete and authoritative introduction to three thousand years of Armenian art, archaeology, architecture, and design.

Author : Christina Maranci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190935887

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The Art of Armenia by Christina Maranci Pdf

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the early eighteenth century C.E. Divided chronologically, it brings into discussion a wide range of media, including architecture, stone sculpture, works in metal, wood, and cloth, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts. Critically, The Art of Armenia presents this material within historical and archaeological contexts, incorporating the results of specialist literature in various languages. It also positions Armenian art within a range of broader comparative contexts including, but not limited to, the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, Byzantium, the Islamic world, Yuan-dynasty China, and seventeenth-century Europe. The Art of Armenia offers students, scholars, and heritage readers of the Armenian community something long desired but never before available: a complete and authoritative introduction to three thousand years of Armenian art, archaeology, architecture, and design.

Author : Vrej Nersessian
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030035484

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Art of the Armenians by Vrej Nersessian Pdf

On the far edge of the Christian world, often isolated or overwhelmed by Muslim cultures, the Armenians have produced a distinctive artistic tradition unlike any other. The collection in this book opens with objects from the great medieval periods in Greater Armenia and the Kingdom of Cilicia and later centuries are represented by paintings and books. The artists, including Ghazar, Arak'el of Gegham, Yovanes Gharietsi, Markos "The Illuminator," and Nagash Hovnat'nan, demonstrate to us how they were able to enrich their works by taking the best elements of Persian, Turkish, Greek, and Western European art and absorb and fuse them into a particular Armenian art.

Author : Helen C. Evans,Benjamin Anderson,Sebouh David Aslanian,Peter Balakian,Antony Eastmond,Lynn A. Jones,Thomas F. Mathews,Erin Piñon,Earnestine M. Qiu,Kristina L. Richardson
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588397379

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Art and Religion in Medieval Armenia by Helen C. Evans,Benjamin Anderson,Sebouh David Aslanian,Peter Balakian,Antony Eastmond,Lynn A. Jones,Thomas F. Mathews,Erin Piñon,Earnestine M. Qiu,Kristina L. Richardson Pdf

This latest volume in The Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia series reprises The Met’s blockbuster exhibition Armenia! (2018–19)—the first major exhibition on the art of this highly influential culture at the crossroads of the eastern and western worlds. Building on the pioneering work of those who first established Armenian studies in America, these essays by a new generation of scholars address Armenia’s roles in facilitating exchange with the Mongol, Ottoman, and Persian empires to the East and with Byzantium and European Crusader states to the West. Contributors explore the effects of this tension in the history of Armenian art and how those histories persist into the present, as Armenia continues to grapple with the legacy of genocide and counters new threats to its sovereignty, integrity, and culture.

Author : Vrej Nersessian
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892366392

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Treasures from the Ark by Vrej Nersessian Pdf

Armenia was the first country to recognize Christianity as the official state religion in 301 AD, twelve years before Constantine's decree granting tolerance to Christianity within the Roman Empire. Ever since, Armenia has claimed the privilege of being the first Christian nation, and the wealth of Christian art produced in Armenia since then is testimony to the fundamental importance of the Christian faith to the Armenian people. This extensive new survey of Armenian Christian art, published to accompany a major exhibition at The British Library, celebrates the Christian art tradition in Armenia during the last 1700 years. The extraordinary quality and range of Armenian art which is documented includes sculpture, metalwork, textiles, ceramics, wood carvings and illuminated manuscripts and has been drawn together from collections throughout the world—many of the examples have never before been seen outside Armenia. In his authoritative text, Dr. Vrej Nersessian, Curator at The British Library, charts the development of Christianity in Armenia. This fascinating history is essential to an understanding of the art and religious tradition of Armenia, a country in which the sense of the sacred extends well beyond the purely religious, infiltrating the entire fabric of Armenian affairs to create a fascinating culture. This sumptuously illustrated book will be of immense value to anyone with an interest in Byzantine art and culture, the history of Christianity and the history of Armenia and the Middle Orient.

Author : Helen C. Evans,Constance Alchermes,Ina Baghdiantz McCabe,Anna Ballian,Sheila R. Canby,Kathrin Colburn,Yolande Crowe,Michael Daniel Findikyan,Rachel Goshgarian,Grigor Grigoryan,Zsuzsanna Gulácsi,Asoghik Karapetian,Anna Leyloyan-Yekmalyan,Christina Maranci,Sylvie L. Merian,Erin Piñon,Earnestine M. Qiu,Ioanna Rapti,Joanna Rydzkowska-Kozak,Suzan Yalman
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588396600

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Armenia by Helen C. Evans,Constance Alchermes,Ina Baghdiantz McCabe,Anna Ballian,Sheila R. Canby,Kathrin Colburn,Yolande Crowe,Michael Daniel Findikyan,Rachel Goshgarian,Grigor Grigoryan,Zsuzsanna Gulácsi,Asoghik Karapetian,Anna Leyloyan-Yekmalyan,Christina Maranci,Sylvie L. Merian,Erin Piñon,Earnestine M. Qiu,Ioanna Rapti,Joanna Rydzkowska-Kozak,Suzan Yalman Pdf

At the foot of Mount Ararat on the crossroads of the eastern and western worlds, medieval Armenians dominated international trading routes that reached from Europe to China and India to Russia. As the first people to convert officially to Christianity, they commissioned and produced some of the most extraordinary religious objects of the Middle Ages. These objects—from sumptuous illuminated manuscripts to handsome carvings, liturgical furnishings, gilded reliquaries, exquisite textiles, and printed books—show the strong persistence of their own cultural identity, as well as the multicultural influences of Armenia’s interactions with Romans, Byzantines, Persians, Muslims, Mongols, Ottomans, and Europeans. This unprecedented volume, written by a team of international scholars and members of the Armenian religious community, contextualizes and celebrates the compelling works of art that define Armenian medieval culture. It features breathtaking photographs of archaeological sites and stunning churches and monasteries that help fill out this unique history. With groundbreaking essays and exquisite illustrations, Armenia illuminates the singular achievements of a great medieval civilization. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

Author : Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781503607644

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The Missing Pages by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh Pdf

“[A] gripping, and at times unsettling, history of . . . the Zeytun Gospels, a lavishly illuminated Armenian book that miraculously survived centuries of war.” —The Wall Street Journal In 2010, the world’s wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty. This is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript’s footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields of 1915 Anatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom. Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it. At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art. “A well-told tale of the history of the Armenian people [and] a wondrous and terrifically engrossing journey of this sacred religious object and priceless work of art.”—Michael Bazyler, author of Holocaust Justice: The Battle for Restitution in America’s Courts

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:917561287

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Armenian Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Mathews,Pierpont Morgan Library
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Armenia
ISBN : UOM:39076002687833

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Treasures in Heaven by Thomas F. Mathews,Pierpont Morgan Library Pdf

Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Արմեն Կյուրքչյան,Հրայր Բազէ Խաչերեան
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39076002908635

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Հայկական զարդարվեստ by Արմեն Կյուրքչյան,Հրայր Բազէ Խաչերեան Pdf

Author : Levon Abrahamian,Nancy Sweezy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000078223876

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Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity by Levon Abrahamian,Nancy Sweezy Pdf

Nine Armenian scholars explore the origins and meanings of Armenian identity through symbols and the objects with which Armenians have historically surrounded themselves. Traces of ancient myths and legends that convey contemporary Armenian values and beliefs are observed in community celectrations.

Author : Christiane Esche
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1032070234

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East-West Artistic Transfer Through Rome, Armenia and the Silk Road by Christiane Esche Pdf

"This book examines the arts and artistic exchanges at the 'Christian Oriental' fringes of Europe, especially Armenia. It starts with the architecture, history and inhabitants of the lesser known pilgrim compounds at the Vatican in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, of Hungary, Germany, but namely those of the most ancient of Churches, the Churches of the Christian Orient Ethiopia and Armenia. Without taking an Eurocentric view, this book explores the role of missionaries, merchants, artists (for example Momik, Giotto, Minas, Domenico Veneziano, Duerer), and artefacts (such as fabrics, inscriptions and symbols) travelling into both directions along the western stretch of the Silk Road between Ayas (Cilicia), ancient Armenia and North-western Iran. This area was truly global before globalization, was a site of intense cultural exchanges and East-West cultural transmissions. This book opens a new research window into the culturally mixed landscapes in the Christian Orient, the Middle East and North-eastern Africa by taking into consideration their many indigenous and foreign artistic components and embeds Armenian arts into today's wider art historical discourse. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, architectural history, missions, trade, Middle Eastern arts and the arts of the Southern Caucasus"--

Author : Nira Stone
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004400504

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Studies in Armenian Art by Nira Stone Pdf

Nira Stone (1938-2013) contributed to the understanding of mediaeval Armenian art and painting. Her interest ranged over a millennium of artistic expression, and over such fields of creativity as manuscript painting, frescos, and mosaics. The volume contains her published papers and one made newly public.

Author : Christina Maranci
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190269012

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The Art of Armenia by Christina Maranci Pdf

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "hot zone," Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era. This book presents a timely and much-needed survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the early eighteenth century C.E. Divided chronologically, it brings into discussion a wide range of media, including architecture, stone sculpture, works in metal, wood, and cloth, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts. Critically, The Art of Armenia presents this material within historical and archaeological contexts, incorporating the results of specialist literature in various languages. It also positions Armenian art within a range of broader comparative contexts including, but not limited to, the ancient Mediterranean and Near East, Byzantium, the Islamic world, Yuan-dynasty China, and seventeenth-century Europe. The Art of Armenia offers students, scholars, and heritage readers of the Armenian community something long desired but never before available: a complete and authoritative introduction to three thousand years of Armenian art, archaeology, architecture, and design.

Author : Theo Maarten van Lint,Robin Meyer,Bodleian Library
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Armenia
ISBN : 1851244409

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Armenia by Theo Maarten van Lint,Robin Meyer,Bodleian Library Pdf

Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later incorporated first by the Sasanian and then the Byzantine Empires. Armenian art, literature, religion and material culture have reinterpreted elements of a wide variety of cultures. Spanning over two and a half millennia, the history of Armenia and the Armenian people is a series of riveting tales, from its first mention under the Achaemenid King Darius I to the independence of the Republic of Armenia from the Soviet Union.With the help of the Bodleian Libraries' magnificent collection of Armenian manuscripts and early printed books, this volume tells the story of the region through the medium of its cultural output. Together with introductions written by experts in their fields, close to one hundred manuscripts, works of art and religious artefacts serve as a guide to Armenian culture and history. Gospel manuscripts splendidly illuminated by Armenian masters feature next to philosophical tractates and merchants' handbooks, affording us an insight into what makes the Armenian people truly unique, especially in the shadow of the genocide that threatened their annihilation a hundred years ago: namely their spirituality, language and perseverance in the face of adversity. VISIT THE EXHIBITIONArmenia: Treasures from an Enduring CultureOctober 2015 - January 2016Bodleian Library, Oxford