Հայկական Մանրանկարչութիւն Եւ Թորոս Ռօսլին




TITLE
Հայկական Մանրանկարչութիւն Եւ Թորոս Ռօսլին - Haygagan Manrangarchutiwn Yev Toros Roslin (English: Armenian Miniature and Toros Roslin)


AUTHOR NAME 1
V. Rev. Fr. Vatché Iknadiossian
AUTHOR NAME ORIGINAL LANGUAGE 1
Վաչէ Ծ. Վրդ. Իգնատիոսեան

PRINTED BY
Վենետիկ - Ս. Ղազար [Venedig - S. Ghazar]

PUBLICATION YEAR
1983

PUBLICATION COUNTRY
Italy

PUBLISHING ORGANISATION
Armenian Catholic Mkhitarist Monastery of St. Lazarus in Venice

EXTRA INFO
By a priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church, printed by the Armenian Catholic Mkhitarist Monastery in Venice

LANGUAGE 1
Western Armenian

GENRE 1
Arts & Culture

NR OF PAGES
72

KEYWORDS
Armenian , armenian church , History , art

CITATION
V. Rev. Fr. Vatché Iknadiossian. Հայկական Մանրանկարչութիւն Եւ Թորոս Ռօսլին, Armenian Miniature and Toros Roslin. Venice: Venice, St. Lazarus Armenian Mkhitarist Monastery, 1983.
IS A TRANSLATION
No

FORM OF PUBLICATION 1
Paperback without ISBN

PUBLISHED BY
Venice, St. Lazarus Armenian Mkhitarist Monastery

PUBLICATION CITY
Venice

CHURCH 1
Armenian Orthodox Church

CONTENT DESCRIPTION
An introduction to Armenian Miniature Painting, with an emphasis on the celebrated painter Toros Roslin (1210-1270)

GENERAL COMMENTS
An accessible and concise, but well-researched introduction to the practice of Armenian miniature painting of illuminated manuscripts, with a focus on the famous painter Toros Roslin (1210-1270, active in the Cilicia region). By V. Rev. Fr. Vatché Iknadiossian, a long-time priest in Marseille. The first part is a general introduction to and history of Armenian miniature painting and to Armenian writing and manuscript production. The second part focuses specfically on the Cilician period of Armenian manuscript production (ca. 1080-1375), with a final full chapter dedicated to the most famous Armenian miniature painter, Toros Roslin. Includes a bibliography with books and articles in Armenian, French, and English.


Dedication to Archbishop Norayr Bogharian, librarian and manuscript cataloguer of the St. James Armenian Monastery in Jerusalem

Table of Contents, Part 1

Table of Contents, Part 2

Armenian miniature illustration of the "Baptism of the Lord," from the 989 AD Etchmiadzin Gospel, attributed to Hovhannes, No. 2374 in the Matenadaran Collection, Yerevan

Armenian miniature illustration of "The Holy Birth of the Lord and the Worship of the Magi and the Shepherds," from a 1260 AD Gospel, by Toros Roslin, manuscript no. 251 in the Sts. James Armenian Monastery Collection, Jerusalem

Armenian miniature illustration of "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem (Palm Sunday)" from a 1262 Gospel, by Toros Roslin, manuscript no. 539 in the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, USA)

Armenian miniature illustration of "The Assumption of the Holy Mother of God" (St. Mary), from the 1346 "Queen Marion Gospel," by the painter Sarkis Bidzag, manuscript no. 1973 in the Sts. James Armenian Monastery Collection, Jerusalem