Exploration of Armenian art began in the 19th century with French, Russian, German, Finnish, Austrian and Armenian art historians, and continued into the 20th century primarily with Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian, American and Italian scholars, who brought to the attention of a large public – not only...

The Khachkar (medieval cross stone), a mirror of Armenian spirituality

Colloques et conférences

Patrick Donabédian (16 févr. 2021)

Colloques et conférences

International audience

The Khachkar (medieval cross stone), a mirror of Armenian spirituality

Colloques et conférences

Patrick Donabédian (16 févr. 2021)

Colloques et conférences

International audience

Armenia – Georgia – Islam : A Need to Break Taboos in the Study of Medieval Architecture

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Patrick Donabédian (21 déc. 2020)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Two important spheres of the history of medieval architecture in the Anatolia-Armenia-South-Caucasian region remain insufficiently explored due to some kind of taboos that still hinder their study. This concerns the relationship between Armenia and Georgia on the one hand, and between Armenia and th...

La mostra itinerante Architettura armena (Milano 1968-Erevan 1996) : Un caso di studio attraverso le carte d’archivio

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

Beatrice Spampinato (21 déc. 2020)

Livres et chapitres d'ouvrages

On 27th October 1968 the architect Adriano Alpago Novello opened the photography exhibition Armenian Architecture. 4th-18th Century , organised in collaboration with the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Milan Polytechnic University. In light of the documentation of CSDCA’s (Study and Document...

Aldo Ferrari, La foresta e la steppa

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Marlène Laruelle (3 juin 2009)

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Le livre d’Aldo Ferrari est ambitieux : retracer sur plus d’un siècle le rapport complexe des Russes à « l’Orient » en s’intéressant aux divers discours, littéraire, politique ou identitaire, qu’il a suscités dans les milieux intellectuels russes. Le pari est réussi : l’esprit de synthèse de l’auteu...

« Venice and the Julfa Merchants », in : Boghos Levon Zekiyan & Aldo Ferrari, eds., Gli Armeni e Venezia: degli Sceriman a Mechitar. Venice, 2004, pp. 141-164.

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Rudi Matthee (2 janv. 2007)

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This is a useful overview of the place Venice occupied in the activities of the New Julfa Armenian merchants in the 17th and 18th centuries. The author demonstrates that as Venice lost its preeminence as the leading European entrepôt for raw silk in the early 17th century, the Julfans began to cast...