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Medieval Armenian Architecture

Author : Christina Maranci
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Armenian Architecture written by Christina Maranci and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monuments of medieval Armenia have been interpreted variously over the centuries as Gothic, Byzantine, Iranian, and "Saracen". However, few scholars have offered satisfactory answers regarding their origins and relations to other architectural traditions. This study examines the scholarship on the subject in East and West and offers a persuasive explanation for the current scholarly impasse. Maranci highlights Josef Strzygowski (1865-1941), a prominent figure in the Vienna School of art history, who was closely allied to the pan-German movements of the early twentieth century. Using unpublished archival materials as well as Strzygowski's numerous publications, the author shows how the ideology of race and nation pervaded Strzygowski's theories of art, and how his ideas and persona have informed - and inhibited - subsequent generations of scholars. The concluding chapter outlines a revised study of Armenian architecture, moving from issues of architectural style to contextual inquiries of patronage and crosscultural exchange. As a detailed survey of medieval monuments and as a historiographical case study, the work addresses a broad audience: not just art historians but all readers interested in how ideology shapes our critical faculties. Christina Maranci received her Ph.D. from the department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University for a dissertation on Armenian architecture. Recipient of Gulbenkian and Mellow Fellowships, she has taught Armenian and Byzantine art at the University of Chicago, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and Boston University. She is currently a professor of medieval art at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Medieval Armenian Art and Architecture

Author : John Gordon Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Armenian Art and Architecture written by John Gordon Davies and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davies' study of medieval Armenian architecture focuses on one of Armenia's most outstanding medieval monuments, the Church of the Holy Cross at Aght'amar. The church, built a thousand years ago, has survived intact and provides a valuable glimpse of the art of the 10th-century kingdom of Vaspurakin.

Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia

Author : Dweezil Vandekerckhove
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004417419
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia by : Dweezil Vandekerckhove

Download or read book Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia written by Dweezil Vandekerckhove and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Medieval Fortifications in Cilicia Dweezil Vandekerckhove offers an account of the fortifications in the Armenian Kingdom (1198-1375). Through the examination of known and newly identified castles, this work increases the number of sites associated with the Armenians.

Ani

Author : S. Peter Cowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Ani written by S. Peter Cowe and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the papers delivered at the First International Symposium on the history, culture, and architectural significance of Ani and an international appeal for its preservation. The symposium brought together the most prominent scholars who have studied this medieval city. The symposium was part of a series of events under the title "The Glory of Ani" commemorating the millennium of the Great Cathedral of Ani. Sponsored by the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, the symposium took place at the New York Historical Society on October 21, 1989.

Aghtamar

Author : Stepʻan Khachʻaturi Mnatsʻakanyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aghtamar written by Stepʻan Khachʻaturi Mnatsʻakanyan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architecture of Aghtamar, the Church of the Holy Cross, 915-921.

Vigilant Powers

Author : Christina Maranci
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503549002
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Vigilant Powers written by Christina Maranci and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens to the reader the world of early medieval Armenia: its sacred landscapes, striking churches, and rich literary and religious traditions. Examination of three sculpted and inscribed monuments, produced during the global wars of the seventh century, demonstrates the close engagement of Armenia with Byzantine imperial interests and with contemporary events in the Holy Land. The dramatic context of the military frontier, and the apocalyptic expectations of its contemporaries, shaped a vibrant visual culture with ties to both the Byzantine and Sasanian worlds. The seventh-century monuments of Armenia are important not just as an extraordinary moment of local cultural production; they fill a crucial gap in our knowledge about the medieval traditions of the Christian East at a time from which little survives from Constantinople and the imperial heartland. East of Rome, North of Jerusalem is the first English-language book devoted to the subject.

A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe

Author : Zara Martirosova Torlone
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111883268X
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe written by Zara Martirosova Torlone and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe is the first comprehensive English?]language study of the reception of classical antiquity in Eastern and Central Europe. This groundbreaking work offers detailed case studies of thirteen countries that are fully contextualized historically, locally, and regionally. The first English-language collection of research and scholarship on Greco-Roman heritage in Eastern and Central Europe Written and edited by an international group of seasoned and up-and-coming scholars with vast subject-matter experience and expertise Essays from leading scholars in the field provide broad insight into the reception of the classical world within specific cultural and geographical areas Discusses the reception of many aspects of Greco-Roman heritage, such as prose/philosophy, poetry, material culture Offers broad and significant insights into the complicated engagement many countries of Eastern and Central Europe have had and continue to have with Greco-Roman antiquity

The Art of Armenia

Author : Christina Maranci
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190269006
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Armenia written by Christina Maranci and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Destruction of Memory

Author : Robert Bevan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896387
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Destruction of Memory written by Robert Bevan and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more than mere buildings. Robert Bevan argues herethat shattered buildings are not merely “collateral damage,” but rather calculated acts of cultural annihilation. From Hitler’s Kristallnacht to the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue in the Iraq War, Bevan deftly sifts through military campaigns and their tactics throughout history, and analyzes the cultural impact and catastrophic consequences of architectural destruction. For Bevan, these actions are nothing less than cultural genocide. Ultimately, Bevan forcefully argues for the prosecution of nations that purposely flout established international treaties against destroyed architecture. A passionate and thought-provoking cri de coeur, The Destruction of Memory raises questions about the costs of war that run deeper than blood and money. “The idea of a global inheritance seems to have fallen by the wayside and lessons that should have long ago been learned are still being recklessly disregarded. This is what makes Bevan’s book relevant, even urgent: much of the destruction of which it speaks is still under way.”—Financial Times Magazine “The message of Robert Bevan’s devastating book is that war is about killing cultures, identities and memories as much as it is about killing people and occupying territory.”—Sunday Times “As Bevan’s fascinating, melancholy book shows, symbolic buildings have long been targeted in and out of war as a particular kind of mnemonic violence against those to whom they are special.”—The Guardian

The Ruins of Ani

Author : Grigoris Palakʻean
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978802919
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book The Ruins of Ani written by Grigoris Palakʻean and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part historical study, part travel memoir, The Ruins of Ani takes readers on a thousand-year journey back to the former capital of the Armenian kingdom, once world-renowned for its magnificent buildings. This new translation by the author's great-nephew, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Peter Balakian, eloquently captures the book's vivid descriptions and lyrical prose.

The Church of the Holy Cross of Ałt‘amar

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400990
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Church of the Holy Cross of Ałt‘amar written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the celebrated church of the Holy Cross of Ałt‘amar founded by King Gagik of Vaspurakan and built in the tenth century. It analyzes this church from multiple perspectives, such as the contemporary intellectual climate, biblical exegesis, historiography, royal ideology, patronage of relics, medieval architecture and art.

Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500

Author : Patricia Blessing
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474411304
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 written by Patricia Blessing and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.

The Armenians

Author : Adriano Alpago Novello
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Armenians written by Adriano Alpago Novello and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Armenia

Author : Helen C. Evans
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588396606
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Armenia written by Helen C. Evans and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-09-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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}

The Missing Pages

Author : Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150360764X
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Missing Pages written by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[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

The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople

Author : Alyson Wharton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857738135
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Architects of Ottoman Constantinople written by Alyson Wharton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Balyan family were a dynasty of architects, builders and property owners who acted as the official architects to the Ottoman Sultans throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally Armenian, the family is responsible for some of the most famous Ottoman buildings in existence, many of which are regarded as masterpieces of their period – including the Dolmabahçe Palace (built between 1843 and 1856), parts of the Topkap? Palace, the Ç?ra?an Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque. Forging a unique style based around European contemporary architecture but with distinctive Ottoman flourishes, the family is an integral part of Ottoman history. As Alyson Wharton's beautifully illustrated book reveals, the Balyan's own history, of falling in and out of favour with increasingly autocratic Sultans, serves as a record of courtly power in the Ottoman era and is uniquely intertwined with the history of Istanbul itself.

Armenia Christiana

Author : Krzysztof Stopka
Publisher : Wydawnictwo UJ
ISBN 13 : 8323395551
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Armenia Christiana written by Krzysztof Stopka and published by Wydawnictwo UJ. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the dramatic and complex story of Armenia's ecclesiastical relations with Byzantine and subsequently Roman Christendom in the Middle Ages. It is built on a broad foundation of sources – Armenian, Greek, Latin, and Syrian chronicles and documents, especially the abundant correspondence between the Holy See and the Armenian Church. Krzysztof Stopka examines problems straddling the disciplines of history and theology and pertinent to a critical, though not widely known, episode in the story of the struggle for Christian unity.