ISBN: PB: 9780892366279
March 2006
128 pp.
25,4x17,8 cm
60 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
PB:
20.00 GBP
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Armenian Gospels of Gladzor
The Life of Christ Illuminated
The book discusses a fourteenth century Armenian manuscript, introducing its illuminators and examining its place in Western European, Byzantine and Islamic artistic traditions. The book reproduces sixty pages of one of the most significant Armenian manuscripts in a United States collection (UCLA). Publication and exhibit, at The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, September 12 – December 2 2001, commemorate the 1700th anniversary of the founding of the Armenian Church.
About the author
Thomas F. Mathews, a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, is also the author of "Armenian Gospel Iconography: The Tradition of the Glajor Gospel".
Alice Taylor is professor of art history at West Los Angles College and is the author of "Book Arts of Isfahan".
Alice Taylor is professor of art history at West Los Angles College and is the author of "Book Arts of Isfahan".