Université de Fribourg

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

Grigoryan Savary, Gohar

In: Venezia Arti, 2018, vol. 27, p. 81-102

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...