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Journal article

The Heritage of Ancestors : Early Studies on Armenian Manuscripts and Miniature Painting

    2018
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  • Venezia Arti. - 2018, vol. 27, p. 81-102
Historiographie médiévale
Art arménien
Art médiéval
Enluminure
Manuscrits arméniens
Historiography
Armenian art
Medieval art history
Manuscripts
Miniature Painting
English This essay deals with the emergence of scholarship on medieval Armenian artifacts with a particular emphasis on the study of manuscripts and miniature painting, and covers the period from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century. While the title of this article may appear to stress the heritage of the Armenians as belonging to a ‘national culture’, it also alludes to some early approaches, according to which the origins of non-Armenian arts were also sought in medieval Armenia. Amidst the growing waves of contemporary imperialist and nationalist sentiments in the nineteenth-early twentieth centuries, the interest in Armenian miniature painting commenced almost simultaneously in four different intellectual milieus – Russian, German-speaking, French, and Armenian – each approaching the subject from its own perspective and motivated by issues specific to the given cultural-political realm.
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie
Language
  • English
Classification
Painting
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/307482
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