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Author Stone, Nira, author.

Title Studies in Armenian art : collected papers / by Nira Stone ; edited by Michael E. Stone, Asya Bereznyak
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 262 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Armenian texts and studies, 2405-7045 ; volume 2
University of Pennsylvania Armenian texts and studies ; 2.
Contents An illuminated Armenian gospel manuscript in the National and University Library, Jerusalem -- The Kaffa manuscript of the Lives of the Desert Fathers -- The Peregrinatio Paphnutiana and Jerusalem ms 285 -- Notes on the floor mosaic from Shellal (Besor Spring) and the mosaic workshop near Gaza -- Judith and Holofernes : some observations on the development of the scene in art -- The relationship between text and illustration -- Apocryphal stories in Armenian manuscripts -- Jerusalem as a point of conversion from sin to sainthood, a story of a woman pilgrim in art -- A pair of Armenian manuscript missals in the Library of Congress -- Narrativity in Armenian manuscript illustration -- The four rivers that flowed from Eden -- The illuminations of the Transfiguration -- The illumination of non-biblical Armenian manuscripts -- A handsome Armenian gospel leaf -- An embellished initial in a Jerusalem document -- Birds from heaven in heavenly Jerusalem
Summary Nira Stone (1938-2013) was a scholar of Armenian and Byzantine Art. Her broad and close acquaintance with the field of Armenian art history covered many fields of Armenian artistic creativity. Nira Stone made notable contributions to the study of Armenian manuscript painting, mosaics, and other forms of artistic expression. Of particular interests are her researches on this art in its historical and religious contexts, such as the study of apocryphal elements in Armenian Gospel iconography, the place of the mosaics of Jerusalem in the context of mosaics in Byzantine Palestine, and of the interplay between religious movements, such as hesychasm, and Armenian manuscript painting
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2020)
Subject Art, Armenian.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian.
Art, Armenian
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian
Form Electronic book
Author Stone, Michael E., 1938- editor.
Bereznyak, Asya, 1980- editor.
LC no. 2019016106
ISBN 9789004400504
9004400508
Other Titles Essays. Selections