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Gospel Book
Sargis Pidzak Armenian
Not on view
A figure in monastic garb identified as Sargis kneels before the evangelist Saint Matthew. The kneeling figure, a celibate priest, is the donor of the manuscript, not the artist, who was a married priest. The illumination is typical of the artist Sargis’s vibrantly colored, decorative images that are less fluid than the earlier Cilician manuscript illuminations that inspired him. The richly gilded ground reflects Cilicia’s relative prosperity in the decades before its fall.
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