Discover Armenia
Armenia is an epic land. Armenia is one of the ancient countries with a long, great and at times tragic history. Beautiful mountainous landscapes, numerous cultural and historical monuments of Armenia would never leave one cold!
Middle Ages were the times of the flourishing of the Armenian art; It was the Golden Age for Armenian architecture, crafts, literature, miniature. One of the brightest representatives of the medieval Armenian poetry was Nahapet Kuchak. LOVE SONG Thy face is like a moon that shines on earth, Like a thick night thy clustering [...]
The Armenian art of manuscript illumination survived 14 centuries, from the Vth till the XIXth century. Starting from the Vth century, after the creation of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots in 405, Armenia experiences the flowering of literature, both translated and original. The boom was soon reflected in the art of the miniature. Many [...]
