Ani Panorama, 2005-2010, Ruben Ghevondyan Item Info
- Description:
- Ani Panorama, 2005-2010, Ruben Ghevondyan, 4×6 m, National Museum-Institute of Architecture named after Alexander Tamanyan, Yerevan. The inscription around the painting, praising Ani’s beauty and mourning its loss, is from the work Voghb Yedesio (Lamentation on Edessa) composed in verse on the occasion of the fall of the city of Edessa by the theologian, writer and hymn composer Nerses IV the Gracious (1102-1173). Known as Nerses Shnorhali, he was Catholicos of the Armenian Church from 1166 to 1173, and has been recognized as a saint also by the Catholic Church.
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"Ani Panorama, 2005-2010, Ruben Ghevondyan", Ani, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), /items/ani_201.html