Biographie

2006-2012: BA et MA en histoire de l’art à l’Université d’État d’Erevan. 2013-2017: doctorat à l’Université de Fribourg, thèse “Images royales du royaume arménien de Cilicie (1198-1375) dans le contexte des échanges interculturels dans le monde méditerranéen” (soutenance de thèse novembre 2017 avec summa cum laude). 2016-2017: chercheuse à la Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. Lauréate de Best Conference Paper Award 2015 remis par la Society for Armenian Studies (California State University, Fresno); titulaire des bourses d’Excellence de la Confédération Suisse 2013-2016, de la Fondation Zeno Karl Schindler, NAASR (National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, Belmont), AGBU (New York), Getty Foundation (Los Angeles), Samuel H. Kress Foundation (New York). 

2012-2017: collaboratrice scientifique aux départements de Codicologie et d'Histoire de l'art à l'Institut des manuscrits anciens (Matenadaran), Erevan. 2017-2022: chercheuse postdoc dans le projet FNS “Royal Epiphanies: The King’s Body as Image and Its Mise-en-scène in Medieval Mediterranean, 12th-14th Centuries” (Université de Fribourg). 2020: contribution au projet FNS "Navel of the World: Cross-Cultural Encounters at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1400-1600" (Université de Berne). 2022-2023: chercheuse senior dans le projet FNS "Cutural Interactions in the Medieval Subcaucasian Region: Historiographical and Art-Historical Perspectives" (Université de Fribourg). 2024: Lectrice à l'Institut d'Études Médiévales, Fribourg. 2024: chercheuse senior dans le projet FNS "Holy Networks: Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852)" (Université de Fribourg).

Recherche et publications

• (2012) Iconography of the "Sacrifice of Isaac" in Armenian Miniature Painting

  Etschmiadzin Monthly 8 (2012): 88–95 (in Armenian).

• (2014) The Roots of Tempietto and Its Symbolism in Armenian Gospels

  Iconographica 13 (2014): 11–24.

• (2015) Updated Information on the Early Publications of the First Printing House in Armenia

  Banber Matenadarani (Bulletin of Matenadaran) 22 (2015): 499–506 (in Armenian).

• (2017) Chapter 5. On the Interpretation of the Crosses Carved on the External Walls of the Armenian Church in Famagusta, Cyprus

  in The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage. Prayers Long Silent, edited by Michael J. K. Walsh (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 125–141.

• (2017) Manifestations of the Mongol-Armenian Relations in the Royal Art of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia: A study of the depiction of the robe of Prince Lewon in the manuscript No. 8321 (Yerevan, Mesrop Maštoc‛ Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts / Matenadaran, fol. 15r)

  in Élites chrétiennes et formes du pouvoir en Méditerranée centrale et orientale (XIIIe–XVe siècle), sous la dir. de Marie-Anna Chevalier et Isabelle Ortega (Paris : Classiques garniere, 2017), 251–300.

• (2018) "The Heritage of Ancestors": Early Studies on Armenian Manuscripts and Miniature Painting

  in Discovering the Art of Medieval Caucasus (1801-1945), edited by Ivan Foletti and Stefano Riccioni, Venezia Arti 27 (2018): 81-102.

• (2019) King Gagik Arcruni’s Portrait on the Church of Ałt‛amar

  Chapter 15 in The Church of the Holy Cross of Ałt‛amar: Politics, Art, Spirituality in the Kingdom of Vaspurakan, edited by Zaroui Pogossian and Edda Vardanyan (Leiden: Brill 2019), 416-440.

• (2019) The Frescoes of the Armenian Church of Famagusta (Cyprus)

  in Armenian Frescoes, ed. by Karen Matevosyan, Yerevan 2019, pp. 286-288.

• (2019) Վերջերս շրջանառվող «կիլիկյան» երկթերթ պատառիկի վավերականության շուրջ
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• (2020) Medieval contexts and modern realities of a Genocide-survivor artwork. A review article of H. Watenpaugh’s The Missing Pages

  Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 27/1 (2020): 117-130.

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• (2020) Two Armenian Manuscripts in Switzerland (with an annotated translation of a newly-found abridgement of the Commentary of Canon Tables attributed to Step‛anos Siwnec‛i)

  Le Muséon 133, 1/2 (2020): 87-139.

• (2021) Armenian Colophons on the Takeover of Sis (1375)

  Revue des Études Arméniennes 40 (2021): 85-99.

• (2021) Au sujet de l'authenticité des deux feuillets d'un manuscrit « cilicien »

  Revue des Études Arméniennes 40 (2021): 263-296.

• (2021) Mariun: An Exiled Queen's Pilgrimage and Death in Jerusalem

  Al-'Usur al-Wusta: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists 29 (2021): 217-255.

• (2021, ed.) Bibliography of Publications (1772-1920) of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin
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• (2022) Armenian Colophons on the Takeover of Sis (1375). Addendum

  Revue des Études Arméniennes 41 (2022)

• (2022) Royal Images and Coronation Celebrations in the Sermons of Yovhannēs Pluz Erznkac‛i

  in Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th-15th Centuries), ed. by M. Bacci and M. Studer-Karlen (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 33-57.

• (2023) A Jacobean shell for Šahuk, "servant of God"

  in Armenia through the Lens of Time: Multidisciplinary Studies in Honour of Theo Maarten van Lint, ed. by F. Alpi et al. (Leiden: Brill, 2023), 56-79.

• (2023) The 'Just Judgement' of Lewon IV. Representational Strategies of Righteous Rulership in Cilician Armenia

  in Staging the Ruler's Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective, M. Bacci, G. Grigoryan and M. Studer-Karlen (eds), Turnhout: Brepols / Harvey Miller, 2023, pp. 79-116 (forthcoming).

• (2023) The construction of sacred spaces in thirteenth-century Armenia: liminal experience and spiritual expectations within the 'gawit'

  in Approaches to Sacred Space(s) in Medieval Subcaucasian Cultures, ed. by Michele Bacci, Natalia Chitishvili, Gohar Grigoryan et al., Rome: Viella, 2023 (forthcoming).

• (2023, co-ed. with M. Bacci and M. Studer-Karlen) Staging the Ruler's Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective (Turnhout: Brepols / Harvey Miller)