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Mezrop of Xizan - An Armenian Master of the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
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Mezrop of Xizan - An Armenian Master of the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)
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Illuminator, painter, scribe, clerk, teacher, doctor of theology,
restorer and binder, Mesrop was one of the greatest Armenian
artists of his and following generations. He was prolific, working
for at least forty-two years in Sos (New Julfa) from 1608 to 1651.
This book will be the first serious study of the 46 of his
manuscripts that have survived. The focus of the book, however, is
The Four Gospels, one of the few manuscripts painted entirely by
Mesrop's hand and one of the most extensively illuminated in his
oeuvre. It includes an extraordinary series of illuminations of
both Old and New Testament scenes, with no less than twenty-three
full page miniatures, and seventeen smaller miniatures. The author
will shed light not only on Mesrop's career but on those of
Armenian miniaturists of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Through a thorough analysis of Mesrop's works Arakelyan is able to
closely study the working methods of artists working in the
scriptoria of Vaspurakan, Mokk' and New Julfa. He demonstrates the
dramatic and exciting way in which these artists deliberately
maintained a style of illumination rooted in Early Christianity.
The monograph will have tremendous significance not only for
Armenologists but also for Byzantinists and all historians of
Christian art.
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