Adventures in Armenian Art, lecture by Christina Maranci (Tufts University), September 29, 2017, 5:30 pm

On September 29, 2017, Professor Christina Maranci will deliver the Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Her lecture is titled Adventures in Armenian Architecture. The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University.

Christina Maranci is Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art and Architecture at Tufts University. Her research interests include medieval Armenian history and its relationship with the Sasanian, Byzantine, and Islamic empires and the problems found in modern historigraphy. Her publications include Medieval Armenian Architecture: Constructions of Race and Nation (2001), Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia (2015), “The Archaeology and Reconstruction Theories of Zuart‘noc‘,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 68 (2015), and The Art of Armenia (forthcoming).