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History of the Civilization and Arts of Armenia from the Bronze Age to Present

ARMENIA: ONE OF THE 10 GREATEST EMPIRES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

By Maximillien de Lafayette

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P. 1. History of the Civilization and Arts of Armenia from the Bronze Age to Present. By Maximillien de Lafayette. The Globe Weekly News

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

ARMENIA: CRADLE OF CIVILIZATIONS. Read

ANCIENT ARMENIAN INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES. Read

 

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ARMENIA

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ARMENIA. Read                                                  THE BIRTH OF ARMENIA AND  THE ORIGIN OF THE ARMENIAN PEOPLE.  Read                ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT URARTURIAN ARMENIANS: Where did the Urartians come from? Who are the Urarturians? Read

 

CHAPTER II

THE CILICIAN KINGDOM

THE CILICIAN KINGDOM Read    

THE GREAT ART OF THE KINGDOM OF URARTU              

THE GREAT ART OF THE KINGDOM OF URARTU: A FORMIDABLE ANCIENT EMPIRE AND A CIVILIZATION CRADLE. Read           ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT URARTURIAN: Where did the Urarturians come from? Who are the Urarturians? Read                                              Time Table of the ancient kingdom of Urartu and its relation to the Time Table of Assyria, Elam and Babylonia. Read                                                   Time Table of the Kings of Urartu . Read

 

CHAPTER III

EARLY ARMENIAN CHRISTIAN FRESCOES AND FIGURATIVE ARTS

EARLY CHRISTIAN FRESCOES AND FIGURATIVE ARTS. Read                            EARLY FRESCOES OF THE EIGHTH AND SEVENTH CENTURIES B.C. Read            ANCIENT GRECO-ARMENIAN FRESCOES AND MOSAIC.  Read                                         FRESCOES OF MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN ANATOLIA. Read                                           EARLY ARMENIAN ANATOLIAN FRESCOES.  Read                                                           CHRONOLOGY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF EARLY CHRISTIAN FRESCOES.  Read                                                    6th CENTURY AND 7th Century Frescoes and Murals.  Read                                                    BETWEEN 921 and 930 A.D. Read                   BETWEEN 1,220 AND 1,236 A.D. Read ARMENIAN MONASTERIES TO SHELTER AND PROTECT FRESCOES ARTISTS. Read           UNDER THE SELJUKS AND MONGOLS. Read      IN THE 14th CENTURY. Read                     ARRIVAL OF THE CRUSADERS. Read  FRESCOES FROM THE THEODOSIA ERA TO THE 18th CENTURY.  Read                              THE NEW COLONY THEODOSIA.  Read          BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF ST. THEODOSIA HISTORICAL PASSAGES. Read                              IN THE 17th CENTURY AND THE 18th CENTURY.  Read                                                                        THE HOVNATANIAN FAMILY COMES TO THE RESCUE.  Read

 

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CHAPTER IV

En route

 

CHAPTER V

En route

 

CHAPTER VI

En route

 

CHAPTER VII

ARMENIAN ICONOGRAPHY

ARMENIAN ICONOGRAPHY. Read                   THE GREATEST EVENT IN THE HISTORY OF ARMENIA. Read                                       SYMBOLISM IN ARMENIAN ICONOGRAPHY. Read                                                                        WHY DO WE SEE PAGAN SIGNS, BESTIAL SYMBOLS, ANIMALS AND PLANTS IN ARMENIAN RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY? Read Pagan animal figures in Christian Armenian iconography.  Read                                         Animal Symbolism and Religious Interpretation by the Early Armenian Christian Church. Read

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER VIII

CHRISTIANITY AND ARMENIAN SACRED ARTS: The illuminated manuscripts

RELIGION AND ARMENIAN SACRED ARTS . Read              THE EARLY RELIGIOUS MANUSCRIPTS PAINTINGS. Read                                                                                    Indigenous painting or Oriental Style. Read                   IMPORTANT COMMENT ON THE NATIVITY THEME PAINTING. Read                                                                 THE ART OF  THE ANONYMOUS PAINTER OF SYUNIQ. Read                                                                  PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SYMBOLISM IN THE ART OF MANUSCRIPTS PAINTING. Read                                     IS THERE ANY INTELLECTUALISM OR INTELLIGENT PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIFESTATION IN THE EARLY ANATOLIAN ARMENIAN MANUSCRIPTS PAINTING? Read SYMBOLISM IN EARLY CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS AND SACRED ARTS. Read

 

P. 3. History of the Civilization and Arts of Armenia from the Bronze Age to Present. By Maximillien de Lafayette. The Globe Weekly News

CHAPTER IX

THE CILICIAN STYLE

THE CILICIAN STYLE FROM ITS GLORIOUS DAYS, ITS ORIGIN, ITS RISE, ITS GLORY TO ITS FALL AND DEATH ON THE HAND OF THE MAMLUKS!  Read                      THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CILICIAN STYLE: THE BYZANTINE, PERSIAN, RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN INFLUENCES. Read                                                     ENTERING THE 13th CENTURY WITH TOROS ROSLIN. Read                                                                                ENTERING THE 14th CENTURY AND THE END OF A GOLDEN ERA. Read                                                             THE END: THE DISASTROUS FALL AND THE END OF THE GREAT CILICIAN ART.  Read                                       FROM THE EARLY ICONS ERA TO THE PRE-MODERN ART PERIOD: HAKOP HOVNATANIAN. Read   AIVAZOVSKY: ARMENIA’S GREATEST ARTIST. Read

 

CHAPTER X

ARMENIAN MODERN AND ABSTRACT ART

WHAT IS AN ARMENIAN ART? Read

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIAN MODERN ART. Read                                                               HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: UNDERSTANDING ARMENIAN DIASPORA IN THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS (1895-1994). Read                                                                THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Read                                                                                   THE PAINTING OF DIASPORA. Read                                THE TIFLIS GROUP. Read                                          INFLUENCE OF THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA CULTURE. Read                                                                                AFTER THE GENOCIDE: THE AWAKENING OF ARMENIAN ART. THE INTERNATIONAL ASPECT OF ARMENIAN ART. Read                                                                        ARMENIAN ART ETHNICITY VERSUS FOREIGN INFLUENCE.  Read                                                           THE NEW REVIVAL OF ARMENIAN ETHNIC ART IN THE 19th CENTURY. Read                                                        THE NEW REVIVAL OF ARMENIAN ETHNIC AND MODERN ART BY THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY. Read                                                                                         THE ARMENIAN ART OF THE WAR YEARS AND POST WAR YEARS. Read                                                           OVERVIEW OF ARMENIAN ART PIONEERS: PERIODS AND MOVEMENTS. Read                                                 NEW NATIONAL ART IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 19th CENTURY. Read                                                      ROMANTICISM IN ARMENIAN ART. Read                      NATIONAL REALISM IN ARMENIAN ART. Read                 IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY AND EARLY 20th CENTURY.  Read                                                                        IMPRESSIONISM, QUASI-IMPRESSIONISM AND SYMBOLISM IN ARMENIAN ART. Read                                  RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN SCHOOL OF ART. Read                                             IDEOLOGY IN ARMENIAN ART.  Read                         ARMENIAN GRAPHIC ART.  Read                               AFTER WORLD WAR TWO: INDIVIDUALISM VERSUS TRADITIONALISM. Read                                           HISTORY OF THE DIASPORA ART. Read                        WHAT IS DIASPORA  ART? Read                                         THE PIONEERS OF THE DIASPORA ART. Read 

 

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CHAPTER XI

THE PIONEERS OF ARMENIAN ART

 MARTIROS SARAYAN. Read                                   CARZOU. Read                                                                 JANSEM. Read                                                           KEVORK BACHINDJAGHIAN. Read                              MHER MANSURIAN. Read                                         VAZKEN MATYAN. Read                                                    ARA SHIRAZ. Read                                                         VLADIMIR MARKARIAN. Read                                    PARTOUGH VARTANYAN. Read                               SEROON YERETZIAN. Read                                           FELIX EGHIAZARIAN. Read                                         WAKHTANG SIRUNYAN. Read                                          ARTHUR SHARAFIAN. Read                                          RAPHAEL ATOYAN. Read                                          HENRIK GARUKIAN. Read                                           HAGOP HAGOPIAN. Read                                           EDGAR CHAHINE. Read                                              HAROUTIUN GALENTZ. Read                                      ARSHILE GORKY.  Read                                                ROUBEN HOVNATANYAN. Read                               KRIKOR KANDJIAN. Read                                  RAZMIG HAKIGIAN. Read                                           SEIRAN KHATMALAJIAN. Read                                     KALOUST  GUEDEL. Read                                      HRIPSIME MARGARYAN. Read                                    MINAS AVETISSIAN. Read                                           GERARDO (GIRARDO) ORAKIAN. Read                        VARTKES SOURENIANTS. Read                                       SEDRAK ARAKELIAN. Read                                               AREV MKRTCHIAN. Read                                                  LEON TUTUNDJIAN. Read                                              ARTUR KAZARIAN. Read                                            SAMUEL GABRIELIAN. Read                                         KAREN AGHAMIAN. Read                                         ARTOUR OSHAKANTSI. Read                                     HRANT MNIRZOIAN. Read                                           TARON MURADIAN. Read                                             GARO ANTREASIAN. Read                                             KRIKOR AGOBIAN.  Read                                                 ANNA HARUTYNYAN. Read

 

CHAPTER XII

MORE LEADING ARTISTS. Read

 

CHAPTER XIII

THE MAKING OF A GREAT ARMENIAN ARTIST

Profile of an Authentic Armenian Maestro: Martiros Sarayan. Read                                                                                   THE PAINTER OF SORROW: GERARDO ORAKIAN.  Read

 

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CHAPTER XIV

THE KATCHKARS

THE KATCHKARS. Read                                                  ART, METAPHYSICS AND THE HEALING POWERS OF ARMENIAN RELIGIOUS ART: THE KATCHKARS . Read THE SACRED STONE CARVED CROSSES AND HOLY ETHNIC ART.  Read                                                          THE RELATION BETWEEN THE KATCHKARS AND EARLY VISHAPS STONES AND NEOLITHIC OBELISKS. Read KATCHKARS AND THE TREE OF LIFE.  Read                    THE GOLDEN ERA OF THE KATCHKARS. Read               THE DESTRUCTION OF THE KATCHKARS BY THE PERSIANS AND THE SELJUKS. Read                               THE RELIGIOUS MEANING OF THE KATCHKARS AND RELATED HEALING POWERS.  Read                       THE BLESSED IRON CHANDELIER UNDER THE DOME OF GUYANEH CHURCH. Read

 

CHAPTER XV

THE ART OF ARMENIAN COINAGE

THE BEAUTY OF THE ARMENIAN COINAGE ART. Read  FIRST ARMENIAN COINS. Read                                     FROM THE FALL OF THE ARTASHESIAN DYNASTY TO THE FIRST ARMENIAN REPUBLIC . Read CLASSIFICATION OF ARMENIAN COINAGE PER DYNASTY AND KINGS REIGNS Read

 

CHAPTER XVI

THE JANYAG ART 

THE ARMENIAN ETHNIC ART OF NEEDLE-LACE  AND EMBROIDERY. Read                                                         THE STORY OF OSANNAH, ARAM  AND THE ARMENIAN LACE MAKING. Read                                                         THE FABULOUS STORY AND LEGEND OF AN ARMENIAN LACE, AND PRINCESS ELISSA OF TYRE AND DIDON, QUEEN OF CARTHAGE.  Read                             WHAT IS  ARMENIAN JANYAQ. Read                                  THE TRADITIONAL JANYAQ. Read                                  THE EARLY CIRCULAR STYLE OF THE ARMENIAN JANYAQ. Read                                                           ANALOGY AND ILLUSTRATED COMPARISON BETWEEN ARMENIAN,  MIDDLE EASTERN, EUROPEAN AND SOUTH AMERICAN STYLES. Read                                    THE MAKING OF THE  LACE. Read                                 THE ARMENIAN DYE. Read                                          VARIOUS COLORS AND TONES OF THE ORIGINAL ARMENIAN DYE: THE COLORING PROCESS Read

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CHAPTER XVII

CERAMICS OF ARMENIA

THE EXQUISITE ART OF THE CERAMICS AND POTTERY OF ARMENIA, ASIA MINOR AND ANATOLIA. Read                                                     Infidel potters and ceramics makers. Read                  THE MAGIC OF KUTAHYA. Read

 

CHAPTER XVIII

PHOTOS OF ARMENIA

PEOPLE, FAMILIES, PLACES, FACES, CITIES, CELEBRATIONS, FOOD, LIFE....Read

 

 

CONCLUSION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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