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MATHEWS TO LECTURE AT COLUMBIA ON ARMENIAN ART
Armenian Weekly
April 4, 2012
NEW YORK-On Tues., April 17, Thomas F. Mathews, John Langeloth Loeb
Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at New York University,
will give an illustrated lecture on "Armenian Art on the International
Stage," at Columbia University. The event is sponsored by the Armenian
Center at Columbia University and the department of art history and
archaeology in association with the National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR).
Christ on the Cross of Glory, 6th c.; relief from Dvin in the Museum of
Armenian History, Yerevan Mathews will explain how recent scholarship
on Armenian art is re-positioning the subject in the grand "Christian
Crescent," which stretched from Alexandria around Palestine and Syria
to Constantinople. On this cosmopolitan international stage, Armenia
kept pace with the latest developments in architectural design,
manuscript painting, church decoration, and the art of icons. The
image theory developed by Vrtanes of Dvin was well in advance of
Greek theologians Leontius of Neapolis and John of Damascus.
Mathews is an acknowledged expert in the field of early Christian and
medieval religious art, with a focus on Armenian church architecture
and manuscript illumination. He has held many prestigious fellowships
and honors-with the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities,
Samuel H. Kress, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Institute for Advanced
Study Princeton, among others-and is the author of numerous books
on Byzantine art, including The Clash of Gods and The Byzantine
Churches of Istanbul. Earlier he curated an exhibition spanning the
whole medieval Armenian tradition of manuscript illumination under
the title "Treasures in Heaven" at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New
York, with accompanying catalogue and collected essays published in
Treasures in Heaven. His most recent book, Byzantium: From Antiquity
to the Renaissance, was published by Yale University Press in 2010.
The talk will take place at 6:30 p.m. on the Columbia campus, in Room
612 of Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Ave., New York. It is free
and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the
Judith Lee Stronach Center Lounge on the 8th floor of Schermerhorn
Hall. The talk is part of an ongoing series of events sponsored by
the Armenian Center.
For information, contact the department of art history and archaeology
by calling (212) 854-4504 or e-mailing [email protected]; or Armen T.
Marsoobian by calling (203) 392-6788 or e-mailing [email protected].
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
Armenian Weekly
April 4, 2012
NEW YORK-On Tues., April 17, Thomas F. Mathews, John Langeloth Loeb
Professor Emeritus in the History of Art at New York University,
will give an illustrated lecture on "Armenian Art on the International
Stage," at Columbia University. The event is sponsored by the Armenian
Center at Columbia University and the department of art history and
archaeology in association with the National Association for Armenian
Studies and Research (NAASR).
Christ on the Cross of Glory, 6th c.; relief from Dvin in the Museum of
Armenian History, Yerevan Mathews will explain how recent scholarship
on Armenian art is re-positioning the subject in the grand "Christian
Crescent," which stretched from Alexandria around Palestine and Syria
to Constantinople. On this cosmopolitan international stage, Armenia
kept pace with the latest developments in architectural design,
manuscript painting, church decoration, and the art of icons. The
image theory developed by Vrtanes of Dvin was well in advance of
Greek theologians Leontius of Neapolis and John of Damascus.
Mathews is an acknowledged expert in the field of early Christian and
medieval religious art, with a focus on Armenian church architecture
and manuscript illumination. He has held many prestigious fellowships
and honors-with the Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities,
Samuel H. Kress, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Institute for Advanced
Study Princeton, among others-and is the author of numerous books
on Byzantine art, including The Clash of Gods and The Byzantine
Churches of Istanbul. Earlier he curated an exhibition spanning the
whole medieval Armenian tradition of manuscript illumination under
the title "Treasures in Heaven" at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New
York, with accompanying catalogue and collected essays published in
Treasures in Heaven. His most recent book, Byzantium: From Antiquity
to the Renaissance, was published by Yale University Press in 2010.
The talk will take place at 6:30 p.m. on the Columbia campus, in Room
612 of Schermerhorn Hall, 1190 Amsterdam Ave., New York. It is free
and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception in the
Judith Lee Stronach Center Lounge on the 8th floor of Schermerhorn
Hall. The talk is part of an ongoing series of events sponsored by
the Armenian Center.
For information, contact the department of art history and archaeology
by calling (212) 854-4504 or e-mailing [email protected]; or Armen T.
Marsoobian by calling (203) 392-6788 or e-mailing [email protected].
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress