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Armenian Art and Creative Exchange on Medieval Trade Routes
Helen C. Evans
Dr. Evans explores the significance of Armenians and Armenian art through the Middle Ages.

Armenian Art and Creative Exchange on Medieval Trade Routes
On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the fall of 2018, Armenia! was the Museum’s first large-scale exhibition dedicated to the artistic and cultural achievements of the Armenian people in the Middle Ages. In a series of videos for AGBU WebTalks, the curators of the show discussed the significance of this unique exhibition and the works represented in it. Here, Dr. Helen Evans explores the importance of Armenia to world art, how Armenians developed a distinct form of Christian art that is related to but not fully part of Western traditions, and the important ways in which they influenced and integrated into the larger world by their control of trade routes in the Middle Ages.

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