Series: Documents of Armenian Architecture #17 ( D ocumenti di Architettura Armena #17)
Author(s)/Editor(s): Murad Hasratian, Bagrat Ulubabian
Language(s): Italian, English, some Armenian (Italiano, Inglese )
Publisher: "OEMME Editzioni"
Place: Milan, Italy (Milano, Italia ); Year: 1987; Pages: 68
Cover: Paperback; Sizes: 27.5(W)x27.5(H) cm; Copies: Limited
Condition: NEW/ LIKE NEW (light self wear & a few minor stains)
ISBN: 88-85822-02-9; Item's Code: XA-791
ABOUT:
Bagrat Ulubabian and Murad
Hasratian write on the Monastery of Gandzasar in Nagorno Karabagh, with
numerous color photographs and surveyed drawings.
This rare and unique, limited edition book by Murad Hasratian and Bagrat Ulubabian is about the Armenian churches of Gandzasar. This series of “Documents” presents, for the first time ever, the most outstanding examples of Armenian architecture. The series provides an exhaustive and mostly unpublished set of photographs along with a complete set of surveys and one or more short essays to introduce the historical and critical setting. The texts are by professors of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenia SSR, Italian research workers and scholars from other countries.
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La presente collana di "Documenti" si propone di presentare per la prima volta la serie dei principali esempi dell'architettura armena fornendo di ciascun monumento una esauriente e per lo piu inedita illustrazione fotati da uno o piu brevi saggi introduttivi di carattere storico-critico e illustrativo.
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ADDITIONAL INFO
Gandzasar monastery (Armenian: Գանձասարի վանք) is a 10th to 13th century Armenian monastery situated in the Mardakert district of de facto Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (de jure: Kalbajar Rayon). "Gandzasar" means treasure mountain or hilltop treasure in Armenian.[1] The monastery holds relics believed to belong to St. John the Baptist and his father St Zechariah.
Gandzasar is now the seat of the Archbishop of Artsakh appointed by the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
Bagrat Arshaki Ulubabyan (Armenian: Բագրատ Արշակի Ուլուբաբյան; Russian: Баграт Аршакович Улубабян; December 9, 1925 – November 19, 2001) was an Armenian writer and historian, known most prominently for his work on the histories of Nagorno-Karabakh and Artsakh.
Ulubabyan was born in the village of Mushkapat in the Martuni region of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO), Azerbaijan SSR, on December 9, 1925. In 1944, he graduated from Shusha's Pedagogical Institute. Two years later, he received his degrees in Armenian language and Armenian literature from Baku's Pedagogical Institute. From 1949 until 1967, he returned to Nagorno-Karabakh and was the head of the province's Writers Union. During those years, he was also a writer for the Armenian language newspaper Sovetakan Gharabagh (Soviet Karabakh) and a deputy to the head of NKAO's executive committee. In 1968, Ulubabyan moved from the NKAO to Yerevan, the capital of the Armenian SSR, and in the following year, became a senior researcher in the history department at the Armenian Academy of Sciences.
Ulubabyan's first works were in the field of poetry. In 1952 and 1956, he completed two works, "Songs about Work and Peace" and "This Morning". He, however, shifted his focus and began writing short stories as well as epics: "Aygestan" (1960), "Tartar" (1963), "The Grain Never Dies" (1967), and "Lamp" (1976). He also wrote two novels, Armenian Land in 1959 and The Man in 1963. One of his most prominent works was the historical novel Sardarapat.
Many of Ulubabyan's work concern the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1975, he published The Principality of Khachen, From the 10th to 16th centuries, a political and cultural history of the medieval principality of Khachen. In 1979, he published A Gold Chain, a collection of historical essays from the stories of Movses Kaghankatvatsi until the era of the principalities of Karabakh, depicting the role of Nagorno-Karabakh in the history of Armenia. Several years later, in 1981, he published Studies in the History of the Eastern Provinces of Armenia and Gandzasar. More recently, he authored A History of Artsakh: From the Beginning Until Our Days (1994). Another work on the region, The Survival Struggle of Artsakh, was published in the same year and was a study focusing on the Nagorno-Karabakh during the Soviet era (from 1918 until the 1960s). As an expert in Classical Armenian literature, he translated two works of the 5th-century Armenian chronicler Ghazar Parpetsi, A History of Armenia and A Letter to Vahan Mamikonian, into Armenian in 1982.
Il monastero di Gandzasar (armeno: Գանձասարի վանք) è un monastero armeno del XIII secolo situato nella repubblica del Nagorno Karabakh, nei pressi del villaggio di Vank (regione di Martakert).
"Gandzasar" significa "montagna del tesoro" in armeno (da gandz tesoro e sar montagna).
Gandzasar fu la residenza del catholicosato di Aghvank della semiautonoma chiesa armeno-albana dal XIV secolo fino al 1836 quando quest'ultima venne definitivamente unita alla Chiesa apostolica armena. Ora è la sede dell'arcivescovo armeno dell'Artsakh.
La costruzione di Gandzasar iniziò nel 1216, sotto il patronato del principe armeno di Khachen, Hasan Jalal-Dawla, e fu completata nel 1238 e consacrata il 22 luglio 1240.
Il complesso è protetto da alte mura. All'interno del complesso vi è la cattedrale di San Giovanni Battista (Սուրբ Յովհաննու եկեղեցի Մկրտիչ in armeno), costruita tra il 1216 e 1238. Il tamburo della cupola ha raffinati bassorilievi che raffigurano la Crocifissione, Adamo ed Eva.
Il monastero possiede reliquie credute appartenere a san Zaccaria, padre di Giovanni Battista.
Nel novembre del 2015, nel complesso del monastero, è stata inaugurata una sezione "Artsakh" del Matenadaran, l'importante raccolta di codici e manoscritti armeni custoditi a Yerevan
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