212 EMBLEMATIC WORKS FROM LOUVRE TO ARMENIAN HISTORY MUSEUM

Panorama.am
16:13 11/07/2007

"Saint Armenia" Exhibition kicked off in Louvre from Frebruary 19 till
May 29 will be presented in the History Museum of Armenia from August
to October within the frameworks of the Year of Armenia in France. Vice
Minister of Culture Gagik Gyurjyan informed about that Panorama.am
correspondent. As he informed all the 212 works are already here in
Armenia(31 cross-stones among them).G.Gyurjyan mentioned that due to
the agreement signed with the Louvre management the exhibition will be
presented here as it was done there. Regarding the vice-president’s
words the exhibition had great achievements and millions of visitors
in France.

The exhibition presented exceptional loans from the Museum and Treasury
of the Etsmiadzin Holy See, Matenadaran and from the National History
Museum. The exhibition first revealed the Adoption of Christianity
and the creation of the Armenian Alphabet in the 4th and the 5th
centuries ,then the first "Golden Age" and the "Church Independence"
in the 6th and 7th centuries, Islamic and Byzantine revivals in the
8th and 13th centuries and the 13th and 15th centuries "Mets Hayk"
and the Persian and Ottoman revivals in the 13th and 15th centuries.

Vice-president G.Gyurjan also said that after the exhibition held in
the History Museum of Armenia all the works will be returned to the
museums , the cross-stones will be brought to the different regions
of the Republic taken with signboards to have been presented in the
Year of Armenia in France exhibition.