Studies in Armenian Art: Collected Papers

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Nira Stone (1938-2013) was a scholar of Armenian and Byzantine Art. Her broad and close acquaintance with the field of Armenian art history covered many fields of Armenian artistic creativity. Nira Stone made notable contributions to the study of Armenian manuscript painting, mosaics, and other forms of artistic expression. Of particular interests are her researches on this art in its historical and religious contexts, such as the study of apocryphal elements in Armenian Gospel iconography, the place of the mosaics of Jerusalem in the context of mosaics in Byzantine Palestine, and of the interplay between religious movements, such as hesychasm, and Armenian manuscript painting. Contents Preface Acknowledgements List of Images Bibliography of Nira Stone Introductory Remarks Introductory Remarks 1 An Illuminated Armenian Gospel Manuscript in the National and University Library, Jerusalem 2 The Kaffa Manuscript of the Lives of the Desert Fathers 3 The Peregrinatio Paphnutiana and Jerusalem MS 285 4 Notes on the Floor Mosaic from Shellal (Besor Spring) and the Mosaic Workshop near Gaza 5 Judith and Holofernes: Some Observations on the Development of the Scene in Art 6 The Relationship Between Text and Illustration 7 Apocryphal Stories in Armenian Manuscripts 8 Jerusalem as a Point of Conversion from Sin to Sainthood. A Story of a Woman Pilgrim in Art 9 A Pair of Armenian Manuscript Missals in the Library of Congress 10 Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration 11 The Four Rivers that Flowed from Eden 12 The Illuminations of the Transfiguration 13 The Illumination of Non-Biblical Armenian Manuscripts 14 A Handsome Armenian Gospel Leaf 15 An Embellished Initial in a Jerusalem Document 16 Birds from Heaven in Heavenly Jerusalem General Index