Armenian Gospels Of Gladzor: The Life Of Christ Illuminated; Author: Mathews, Thomas F.; Joint Author: Taylor, Alice; Hardback; Book

Author: Mathews, Thomas F.; Joint Author: Taylor, Alice
Hardback; Book; 60 Colour & 10 B&w Illustrations
128 pages
Published: August 2001
Getty Trust Publications
ISBN: 0892366265
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This masterpiece of Armenian illumination was created in the fourteenth century by monks at the theological school of Gladzor, who copied its text and painted its elaborate cycle of miniatures. Owned at various times by merchants and princes, the Gladzor Gospels is now in the special collections library at the University of California, Los Angeles.This beautiful volume features colorreproductions of most of the manuscript's intricate miniatures. The authors discuss the production of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, then focus on the Gladzor Gospels, examining the historical and social contexts at the time of its creation, the theological school of Gladzor, and the themes depicted in the manuscript's brilliant illuminations. This book is published to coincide with an exhibitionThis text discusses a 14th-century Armenian manuscript, introducing its illuminators and examining its place in Western European, Byzantine and Islamic artistic traditions. The volume reproduces 60 pages of the manuscript, which is in the collection of the UCLA.