A Mutual Presentation : Precocious Interests for Medieval
Armenia in Nineteenth-century Italy

C 2023

A Mutual Presentation : Precocious Interests for Medieval Armenia in Nineteenth-century Italy

MORASCHI, Annalisa

Basic information

Original name

A Mutual Presentation : Precocious Interests for Medieval Armenia in Nineteenth-century Italy

Authors

MORASCHI, Annalisa (380 Italy, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Turnhout, Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture and Heritage, p. 116-133, 18 pp. Convivium Supplementum, 11, 2023

Publisher

Brepols

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

60401 Arts, Art history

Country of publisher

Belgium

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

References:

Publisher Website

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/23:00134145

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-280-0306-7

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135379

UT WoS

001004775500007

Keywords in English

Armenia; exhibition; Ghevond Alishan; Italy; Luigi Montabone; photography; travel; Venice

Abstract

V originále

Two overlooked events involving the relation between Italy and Armenia in the second half of the nineteenth century offer special significance for the historical-artistic study of Armenia. The Mostra Veneto-Armena, an exhibition organized by the Mekhitarists of San Lazzaro and held in Venice in 1881, aimed to introduce Armenia to the world. Along with many objects, the organizers presented a section that included travel reports which documented Armenian monuments. One of these accounts had been produced decades before, during a mission promoted by Italy’s monarch, Umberto I, who dispatched a diplomatic mission to Persia to meet the Shah. To reach Tehran, a delegation comprising not only diplomats and soldiers but also a scientific group that included photographer Luigi Montabone, walked across Armenia. The photos are of great documentary interest, especially those of Ējmiatsin, the appearance of which before its late-nineteenth-century modifications was otherwise photographically unrecorded. Seen in parallel, both events highlight how the Italian administration’s political agenda on the one hand, and, on the other, the efforts of the Armenian community in Italy, resulted in an early interest in Armenia’s heritage.

Links

GF21-01706L, research and development project

Name: Kulturní dialogy v Jihokavkazském regionu ve středověku: historiografická a historicko-umělecká perspektiva (Acronym: CIMS)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Partner Agency (Switzerland)

Citovat

MORASCHI, Annalisa. A Mutual Presentation : Precocious Interests for Medieval Armenia in Nineteenth-century Italy. In Palladino, Adrien; Campini, Ruben; Moraschi, Annalisa; Foletti, Ivan. Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture and Heritage. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p. 116-133. Convivium Supplementum, 11. ISBN 978-80-280-0306-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135379.

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MORASCHI, Annalisa. A Mutual Presentation : Precocious Interests for Medieval Armenia in Nineteenth-century Italy. In Palladino, Adrien; Campini, Ruben; Moraschi, Annalisa; Foletti, Ivan. \textit{Re-Thinking Late Antique Armenia : Historiography, Material Culture and Heritage}. Turnhout: Brepols, 2023, p.~116-133. Convivium Supplementum, 11. ISBN~978-80-280-0306-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CONVISUP-EB.5.135379.

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