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Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Keywords: architecture, churches, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, domed basilica, cruciform, barrel vaults, rotunda, ambulatory, Holy Sepulchre, capitals, domes, Mren, Zvart’nots’, Ptłni
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[expand title=”The Golden Age of Architecture in a Shifting Socio-Political World”]
Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Keywords: Holy Land, Heraclius, tympanum, Byzantine, Persian, Mren, Ptłni, Zvart’nots’
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[expand title=”Relics and Monuments of the Holy Land: The Churches of Mren and Zvart’nots'”]
Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Keywords: Return of the Cross, relief sculpture, Heraclius, Armenia, Persian, Jerusalem, Byzantine, Kren, Zvart’nots’
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Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Keyworks: social history, Ptłni, Zvart’nots’, Mren, churches, Eucharist, medieval, noble life
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Edited from: “Armenian Art of the Seventh Century and the Problem of Periphery”
by Christina Maranci, Tufts University
Keyworks: preservation, Armenia, church, Mtsxeta, Mren, Zvart’nots’
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[expand title=”Architecture and Visual Incongruity”]
Edited from: “Incongruent Strategies: Engagements with Humor and Identity in Contemporary Azerbaijani Art”
by Monica Steinberg, City University of New York
Keywords: architecture, art, Alakbarov, Rasulov, Baku, Azerbaijan, corruption, Soviet
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