Architecture of Medieval Armenia as a Field of Research for Russian and Italian Scholars: Comparative Analyses of the Historiography
Kazaryan, Armen Yu. · 2023
Compares two major architectural-archaeological missions to the built heritage of the Armenian Highlands: the Russian Ani Archaeological Expedition (1892–1917) and the Italian programmes of the Universities of Rome and Venice and Milan Polytechnic (1966 to the 1980s). Kazaryan evaluates what each contributed and argues the differences in their results stem from the chronological gap and from divergent orientations. The Russian work was primarily archaeological, the Italian primarily architectural. Nikolay Marr aimed to exhibit original artifacts in the museum he founded at Ani, while the Italian professors relied on photography for exhibitions. The article also draws on the Ani fieldwork of the architect Toros Toramanian.
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Kazaryan, Armen Yu. 2023. Architecture of Medieval Armenia as a Field of Research for Russian and Italian Scholars: Comparative Analyses of the Historiography. Arts, Vol. 12, No. 6, art. 238 (MDPI); DOI 10.3390/arts12060238. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12060238
What this offers a reader
How the study of Armenian architecture was actually built up, mission by mission.
Historiographical synthesis by a leading Armenian architectural historian; open access.
Everything we know about Ani, we know because of a handful of expeditions. Here is their story.
The scholars who documented medieval Armenian architecture, and what they missed.
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