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DESTROYED OLD JUGHA CROSS-STONES COPIED IN ARMENIA
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/711457/destroyed-old-jugha-cross-stones-copied-in-armenia.html
14:58, 14 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 14, ARMENPRESS. On the initiative of individual
cross-stone masters the cross-stones destroyed in Old Jugha are being
copied in Armenia. As reports "Armenpress" Honored Culture Worker of
the Republic of Armenia, armenologist, and expert on Nakhijevan Argam
Ayvazyan stated this during the press conference held on March 14.
Among other things Argam Ayvazyan noted that art of cross-stones is
developing in Armenia, notwithstanding the new cross-stones have quite
different ornaments, and the styles of the past were not preserved.
Ayvazyan highlighted: "The art of cross-stones has not been studied
properly, and there few scientific works dedicated to that topic.
Presently cross-stone masters copy the Old Jugha cross-stones using
the ornaments that have already been explored." 30-40 cross-stones
have already been copied.
The last case of the Armenian cross-stones destruction has been
recorded in 200-2006, when tens of Azeri soldiers armed with huge
hammers and machines were destroying Armenian cross-stones in Old
Jugha cemetery. They were destroyed and removed to make room for
construction of a shooting ground. More than 27,000 cross-stones and
Armenian monuments have been destroyed in Nakhijevan since 1998.
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/711457/destroyed-old-jugha-cross-stones-copied-in-armenia.html
14:58, 14 March, 2013
YEREVAN, MARCH 14, ARMENPRESS. On the initiative of individual
cross-stone masters the cross-stones destroyed in Old Jugha are being
copied in Armenia. As reports "Armenpress" Honored Culture Worker of
the Republic of Armenia, armenologist, and expert on Nakhijevan Argam
Ayvazyan stated this during the press conference held on March 14.
Among other things Argam Ayvazyan noted that art of cross-stones is
developing in Armenia, notwithstanding the new cross-stones have quite
different ornaments, and the styles of the past were not preserved.
Ayvazyan highlighted: "The art of cross-stones has not been studied
properly, and there few scientific works dedicated to that topic.
Presently cross-stone masters copy the Old Jugha cross-stones using
the ornaments that have already been explored." 30-40 cross-stones
have already been copied.
The last case of the Armenian cross-stones destruction has been
recorded in 200-2006, when tens of Azeri soldiers armed with huge
hammers and machines were destroying Armenian cross-stones in Old
Jugha cemetery. They were destroyed and removed to make room for
construction of a shooting ground. More than 27,000 cross-stones and
Armenian monuments have been destroyed in Nakhijevan since 1998.