Summary This book questions the place of Armenian visual and material culture in the period known as Late Antiquity, at a time when Armenia is usually presented as an in-between space defined by surrounding external entities: the Roman and the Persian, and later Arab world. The volume includes articles that confront this notion both from the perspective of art history, architecture, and archaeology, and from a historiographical point of view, which examines the reception of Armenian arts by scholars from Italy, Russia, and France. The articles in this richly illustrated volume aim to reposition Armenia as one of the forces of artistic creation and mediation to be reckoned with within the Mediterranean and Eurasian space of Late Antiquity. This project draws on the papers presented at the conference ?Re-Constructing Late Antique Armenia (2nd-8th Centuries CE). Historiography, Material Culture, Immaterial Heritage? that took place in February 2022 at the Center for Early Medieval Studies in Brno, Czech Republic. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Ivan Foletti & Adrien Palladino Late Antiquity and Armenia. From Marginalized Region to Creative Force Articles Patrtick Donab dian Culmination of a Late Antique Legacy? The Golden Age of Armenian Architecture in the Seventh Century Naz nie Garibian The First Armenian Christian Sanctuaries and Shrines. Reconsidering the Received Tradition Lilit Mikayelyan Greco-Roman Ornamental Motifs in Armenia and Iran. Commonality and Sustainability of Tradition (5th-11th Centuries) Zaruhi Hakobyan The Image of St Christopher Cynocephalus in Early Medieval Sculpture of Armenia Adrien Palladino From Desperate Solidarity to Dispassionate Eye. Shifting French Perspectives on Early Medieval Armenian Art (ca 1894-1929) Annalisa Moraschi A Mutual Presentation. Precocious Interests for Medieval Armenia in Nineteenth-Century Italy Beatrice Spampinato A Theoretical Topography of Architecture. On the Problematic Connections between Rome, Byzantium, and Armenia in Italian Historiography (1914-1945) Ruben Campini Art from the Borders? Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and the Localization of a Group of Early Christian Ivory Pyxides in the Caucasus Ivan Foletti & Pavel Rakitin Re-Inventing Late Antique and Early Medieval Armenia in World War II Soviet Union Afterword Christina Maranci Late Antique Armenia. Past, Present, and Future