Hakob's Gospels: The Life and Work of an Armenian Artist of the Sixteenth Century

by Tim Greenwood

In the winter of 1586, Hakob Jughayets'l, one of Armenia's most celebrated illuminators, completed work on a Gospel Book with an extensive and extraordinary programme of narrative miniatures and marginal figures. Produced in an era of warfare between the Safavid and Ottoman empires over the possession of Armenia, and while Hakob himself was a wandering artist, this manuscript provides a compelling witness to the development of Hakob's artistic personality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0954901479
• ISBN13: 9780954901479
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 11.8"