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Alexander Romance
Not on view
This illumination by Bishop Zak‘ariay of Gnunik‘, in a manuscript painted with his student Hakob of Julfa, is an Armenian version of the third-century Greek Alexander Romance, a mythical account of the life of Alexander the Great. A huge crab swallows Alexander’s ship on the left. On the right, several donkeys lead Alexander through a foreign land. Two birds warn Alexander to turn back without treading upon this land that belongs only to God.
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