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One of the world's greatest art collections is here brought before the general public for the first time. It is that belonging to the Jerusalem Patriarchate of the Armenian Church and it forms the richest and most important concentration of Armenian Art in the world.

For the first time it has been fotopraphed and described on an extensive scale. This volume unveils a dazzling variety of art objects - sumptuous medieval illuminated manuscripts, printed books, mosaic pavements, painted tiles and ritual objects
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Bezalel Narkiss (1928-2008) was an Israeli art historian.
Narkiss was an expert in illuminated medieval Latin and Hebrew manuscripts and the relationship between Christian and Jewish visual art. After the collapse of communism in Europe in 1989, he embarked on a project to document the synagogues there.

Narkiss was the Nicolas Landau Professor of Art History at the Hebrew University, where he taught since 1964. In 1979, he created the Center for Jewish Art to document endangered Jewish art and architecture.

Narkiss was a visiting professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts, Brown University and Princeton University. In addition to his teaching positions, he was art editor of the Masada Press (1963—1975) and Encyclopaedia Judaica. He was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Jewish Art in 1974—1986.
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Armeense kunst - Jeruzalem - Armeense boekdrukkunst - Illuminated Manuscripts