| Description |
x, 402 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-378) and index. |
| Contents |
Survivor objects : artifacts of genocide -- Hromkla : the God-protected castle of priests and artists -- Zeytun : the lost world of Ottoman Armenians -- Marash : the holy book bears witness -- Aleppo : survivors reclaim their heritage -- New York : the Zeytun Gospels enters art history -- Yerevan : Toros Roslin, artist of the Armenian nation -- Los Angeles : the contest over art. |
| Summary |
In 2010, the J. Paul Getty Museum was confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the medieval Armenian artist Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty. |
| Language |
"All translations from Armenian, Arabic, French, and Turkish are the author's unless otherwise noted."--Page 311. |
| Subject |
Tʻoros Ṛoslin, active 13th century -- Manuscripts -- History.
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J. Paul Getty Museum -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Armenian -- History.
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- Turkey.
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Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500.
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Cultural property -- Repatriation -- Armenia (Republic)
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Manuscript fragments -- California -- Los Angeles.
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Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.
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| ISBN |
9780804790444 (cloth alk. paper) |
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0804790442 |
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