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Various Aspects of the Image of a Dragon-serpent in Armenian and South-Caucasian Sculpture of the 7th–14th Centuries

Lilit Sh. Mikayelyan · 2021

Catalogue summary

Armenian and South-Caucasian reliefs trace the dragon-serpent from a defeated demonic figure to an astral, apotropaic, and liminal motif on churches, towers, doors, and windows between the seventh and fourteenth centuries.

Why this matters

The iconographic sequence shows Christian adaptation of older symbolism and enables comparison with contemporary Islamic ornament.

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Published in
Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art
Year
2021
Language
English
DOI
10.18688/aa2111-02-19

Citation

Lilit Sh. Mikayelyan 2021. Various Aspects of the Image of a Dragon-serpent in Armenian and South-Caucasian Sculpture of the 7th–14th Centuries. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art. https://doi.org/10.18688/aa2111-02-19

Topics

Archaeology, art, and material cultureReligion and church history

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