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Across centuries of Armenian history, one artistic tradition has preserved the spiritual grandeur, cultural identity, and visual language of the nation more faithfully than any other: the medieval miniature. These small but astonishingly detailed paintings, found in Gospels, Bibles, hymnals, and ritual manuscripts, served not only as devotional illumination but as an irreplaceable archive of […]

Across centuries, one of the most powerful visual expressions of Armenian spiritual life has been the ceremonial attire worn by the Catholicos. The supreme head of the Armenian Apostolic Church. These vestments are more than garments. They are repositories of cultural memory, theological symbolism, and artistic heritage. In The Iconography of Catholicos’ Vestments in the […]

For thousands of years, Armenia has stood at the crossroads of civilizations, absorbing and preserving cultural knowledge long after other societies faded into history. Nowhere is this remarkable continuity more visible than in the ceremonial garments of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Far more than religious attire, these vestments carry within their layered folds the memory […]