Full Description
Nira Stone (1938-2013) was a scholar of Armenian and Byzantine Art. Her broad and close acquaintance with the field of Armenian art history covered many fields of Armenian artistic creativity. Nira Stone made notable contributions to the study of Armenian manuscript painting, mosaics, and other forms of artistic expression. Of particular interests are her researches on this art in its historical and religious contexts, such as the study of apocryphal elements in Armenian Gospel iconography, the place of the mosaics of Jerusalem in the context of mosaics in Byzantine Palestine, and of the interplay between religious movements, such as hesychasm, and Armenian manuscript painting.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Images
Bibliography of Nira Stone
Introductory Remarks
Anna Leyloyan-Yekmalyan
Introductory Remarks
Christina Maranci
1 An Illuminated Armenian Gospel Manuscript in the National and University Library, Jerusalem
2 The Kaffa Manuscript of the Lives of the Desert Fathers
3 The Peregrinatio Paphnutiana and Jerusalem MS 285
4 Notes on the Floor Mosaic from Shellal (Besor Spring) and the Mosaic Workshop near Gaza
5 Judith and Holofernes: Some Observations on the Development of the Scene in Art
6 The Relationship Between Text and Illustration
7 Apocryphal Stones in Armenian Manuscripts
8 Jerusalem as a Point of Conversion from Sin to Sainthood a Story of a Woman Pilgrim in Art
9 A Pair of Armenian Manuscript Missals in the Library of Congress
10 Narrativity in Armenian Manuscript Illustration
11 The Four Rivers that Flowed from Eden
12 The Illuminations of the Transfiguration
13 The Illumination of Non-Biblical Armenian Manuscripts
14 A Handsome Armenian Gospel Leaf
15 An Embellished Initial in a Jerusalem Document
16 Birds from Heaven in Heavenly Jerusalem
Index
