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U.S. PROFESSOR TO GIVE ILLUSTRATED LECTURE ON ARMENIAN ART
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 7, 2012 - 11:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On 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 Armenian Weekly reported.
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).
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 event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by
a reception.
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 7, 2012 - 11:06 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - On 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 Armenian Weekly reported.
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).
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 event is free and open to the public, and will be followed by
a reception.