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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.
Published in
Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art
Year
2017
Language
English
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
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