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‘Flourished’ Animals in the Art of Sasanian Iran and Armenian Medieval Sculpture of the 10th–14th Centuries

Mikayelyan Lilit Sh. · 2017

Catalogue summary

The article compares vegetal ornament on fantastic animals in tenth- through fourteenth-century Armenian sculpture with Sasanian and Islamic artistic precedents.

Why this matters

Its iconographic analysis explains paradise, dynastic-protection, fertility, and apotropaic meanings while extending earlier observations about Aghtamar sculpture.

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Published in
Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art
Year
2017
Language
English
DOI
10.18688/aa177-2-26

Citation

Mikayelyan Lilit Sh. 2017. ‘Flourished’ Animals in the Art of Sasanian Iran and Armenian Medieval Sculpture of the 10th–14th Centuries. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art. https://doi.org/10.18688/aa177-2-26

Topics

Archaeology, art, and material cultureReligion and church historyArmenian history

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