Art of Armenia - An Introduction

The Art of Armenia offers a sweeping survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the eighteenth century C.E., addressing a range of media including architecture, sculpture, works in metal, wood, and ivory, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Art of Ancient Armenia


• Chapter 2: Art of the Early Medieval Era


• Chapter 3: The Age of the Kingdoms


• Chapter 4: The Art of Armenian Cilicia


• Chapter 5: Greater Armenia in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries


• Chapter 6: Art, Empire, and Diaspora (the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)


• Chapter 7: Postscript: Memory and Heritage


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Christina Maranci is Arthur H. Dadian and Ara T. Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art at Tufts University, and a specialist on the medieval era. She has published and lectured widely, having authored three previous monographs and over seventy essays, articles, and reviews. Her work combines scholarship on the history of Armenian art and architecture with advocacy for at-risk Armenian heritage, particularly medieval monuments in the Republic of Turkey.

Summary

The Art of Armenia offers a sweeping survey of the arts of Armenia from antiquity to the eighteenth century C.E., addressing a range of media including architecture, sculpture, works in metal, wood, and ivory, manuscript illumination, and ceramic arts.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Maranci, Christina (Arthur H. Dadian and Ara T. Oz Maranci, Maranci Christina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.11.2018
• EAN: 9780190269005
• ISBN: 978-0-19-026900-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; History, HISTORY / General, ART / Subjects & Themes / Religious, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / Middle Eastern, Middle East, CE period up to c 1500, History of Art, Archaeology, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Archaeology by period / region, History and Archaeology, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval style, Religious subjects depicted in art, Religious and ceremonial art, Middle & Near Eastern archaeology, ART / History / European / Medieval