Dr. Christina Maranci, Tufts University Department of Art History and Architecture chair and Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel associate professor, will give a virtual presentation on “Ani Cathedral, its Sculpture, and its Inscriptions Revisited” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3 on Zoom.
Building on recent discoveries of the frescoes in the sanctuary, the lecture gives an overview of the building with a focus on architecture, inscriptions, and sculpture of the exterior.
Maranci graduated from Princeton University with a dissertation on Medieval Armenian Architecture in Historiography: Josef Strzygowski and his Legacy. She is the author of The Art of Armenia: An Introduction and Vigilant Powers: Three Churches of Early Medieval Armenia.
The presentation is part of the Fall 2020 Lecture Series of the Armenian Studies Program and is supported by the Leon S. Peters Foundation.
For more information about the lecture please contact the Armenian Studies Program at (559) 278-2669.
