Art and religion in Medieval Armenia /
The papers in this volume, first presented at an international symposium celebrating The Met's blockbuster 2018 exhibition, 'Armenia!', explore the art and culture of a civilization that served as a pivotal crossroads on the border between East and West. Contributors address Armenia&#...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Evans, Helen C., editor. |
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| Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2021] |
| Series: | Metropolitan Museum of Art symposia.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Celebrating Armenia across Generations
- The Great Kosmos of All Armenia: On the Sarcophagus of Isaac
- "Rare and Beautiful Ornaments": Armenian Bronze Censers
- Monumental Painting and the Role of Images in Armenia under the Mongols
- "Red Ink and Gold and the Most Pleasing": Reading Color and Image in the Armenian Lives of the Desert Fathers
- Imaging and Imagining Armenian History: Manuscript Illustration in Early Modern Vaspurakan
- An Ode to an Armenian Silk Merchant in 16th-Century Aleppo
- "A Ship with Two Rudders"? Gregorio di Girach-Mirman of Venice, Global Armenian Trade Networks, and Religious Ambiguity in the Age of Confessionalization
- The Ruins of Ani
- Bibliography
- Photograph and Illustration Credits