Quoted for provenance. The source’s names, territorial claims and descriptions are not the archive’s editorial voice. Catalog titles use Armenian place names where identified; original files remain unchanged.
Gandzasar dome Hasan-Jalal Dawla sculpture (cross-legged, with church)
Gandzasar dome Hasan-Jalal Dawla sculpture (cross-legged, with church) "On the northern and southern niches on the western side of the church drum, two reliefs show a man seated with his legs crossed, holding a church model above his head (fig. 9-10). The donors’ pose and their apparel, which depart from the traditional iconography of donors’ portraits outlined above, show the impact of Saljuq costumes and representation of power,42 revealing a substantial cross-cultural interaction that had a great effect on the development of Transcaucasian visual culture." Buildings in their patrons' hands? The multiform function of small size models between Byzantium and Transcaucasia, October 2014, Maria Cristina Carile (University of Bologna), p.8
