Title |
Palace Architecture of Ani: Preliminary Results of the Study |
Author |
Baeva, Olga V. ; Kazaryan, Armen Yu. |
email |
olabaeva@mail.ru |
About author |
Baeva, Olga V. — Ph. D, associate professor. Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU), National Research University. Yaroslavskoye Shosse, 26, 129227 Moscow, Russian Federation; assistant professor. Academy of Architecture and Arts of the Southern Federal University. Bolshaya Sadovaya ul., 105/42, 344006 Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation; olabaeva@mail.ru; SPIN-code: 3471-3037; ORCID: 0000-0002-0808-9842
Kazaryan, Armen Yu. — full doctor, director. Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU), National Research University. Yaroslavskoye Shosse, 26, 129227 Moscow, Russian Federation; armenkazaryan@yahoo.com; SPIN-code: 9008-1375; ORCID: 0000-0002-8039-207X
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In the section |
Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art |
DOI | 10.18688/aa2313-2-15 |
Year |
2023 |
Volume |
13 |
Pages |
185–199 |
Type of article |
RAR |
Index UDK |
72.033 |
Index BBK |
85.11 |
Abstract |
A century later, the resumption of comprehensive studies of the architecture of Ani, the capital and the largest city of medieval Armenia, requires an appeal to all sides of the development of the Ani school of architecture, which clearly showed its best qualities not only in church, engineering, and fortification architecture, but also in the building of palaces. In Ani, palace complexes and buildings, each of which deserves a separate study, have reached our days in a poor state of preservation. But in order to identify the condition, level of analysis, and needed direction for this work, it requires an analytical review of the entire set of monuments, and this is what this article aims to accomplish. In the absence of written sources regarding the construction of palaces, the reports on excavations and descriptions compiled during the years of work in the Ani expedition led by Nikolai Y. Marr are crucial. These reports were made when the buildings were in much better condition and it was possible to advance reconstructions of their compositions and significant architectural forms. The article presents observations and photographs taken by the authors during their visits to Ani in recent years. The monuments have been described in accordance with the relative chronology of their construction. Attention is drawn to those features of the layout, construction equipment, and decoration which appear to the authors to be the most valuable and which determine the direction of further archaeological and architectural research. Debatable issues concerning the function of some of the Ani structures, the opinions of scientists on the manifestation of various aspects of architectural creativity directly related to the global transformations of architectural traditions in the Middle East have been discussed.
The study has been realized by the grant of the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 22-18-00354, in the Moscow State University of Civil Engineering (MGSU), National Research University. |
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Reference |
Baeva, Olga V. ; Kazaryan, Armen Yu. Palace Architecture of Ani: Preliminary Results of the Study. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 13. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — Lomonosov Moscow State University / St. Petersburg: NP-Print, 2023, pp. 185–199. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2313-2-15
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Full text version of the article |
Article language |
russian |
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