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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Between Byzantium and Islam: Royal iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis thesis examines the royal iconography of the palatine Church of the Holy Cross, built by Gagik Artsruni, first king of Vaspurakan, on the island of Alt'amar in the years 915-21. The church is decorated on the exterior with over three hundred sculpted figures, and two fresco cycles adorn the interior walls and the drum of the dome.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Art History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Jones, Lynn Anne
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Maguire, Henry
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1995 Jones, Lynn Anne
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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(UMI)AAI9624375
AAI9624375 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20747