Artist MartirosKhizanitsi between Influence and Impact "In the Light of Selected Models Miniatures"(952: 1015 AH) (1546: 1607 AD) | ||
| مجلة کلية الآثار . جامعة القاهرة | ||
| Volume 18, Issue 28, 2025, Pages 271-297 PDF (1.68 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarch.2025.403877 | ||
| Author | ||
| Nefrtari Yassin | ||
| Faculty of Archaeology- Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The Muslim rule over Christian Armenia was a reason for the Armenians to be influenced by them in several fields, including the field of the art of manuscripts illustration. Islamic artistic influences appeared in the works of some Armenian illuminators, such as the family of the artist MartirosKhizanitsi. The artist Martiros was one of the greatest artists associated with the Khizan Art Center in Armenia - his original homeland - and his art of illustration manuscripts was characterized by a special style that is considered a mixture of artistic influences that can be called artistic heritage, through the presence of Islamic artistic influences, such as the clarity of the Arab character in the features of faces, clothes and head coverings, and in the simplicity of the design and lack of complexity, with the satisfaction of drawing the elements that represent the main subject directly, in addition to the distance from imitating nature, and other Islamic artistic influences, with Byzantine influences in some other elements of his miniatures, and all of these artistic influences were later transferred through several crossings to Martiros' son, the artist Mesrop Khizanitsi, who in turn established a pictorial art school in New Julfa in Isfahan, where the family of the artist Martiros immigrated there in the late (tenth century AH / sixteenth century AD, and early eleventh century AH / seventeenth century AD). Although the miniatures belonging to the artist Martiros are few in number, due to political reasons related to the Safavid-Ottoman war on Armenia, the miniatures that have reached us give a clear picture of the artistic features of Martiros' style, through a descriptive and analytical study of these miniatures | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Miniatures; manuscripts; Martiros; Armenians; illustrator; Khizan | ||
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