150th birth anniversary of Vardges Surenyants marked Feb.27

27.02.2010 14:01 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 150th birth anniversary of painter Vardges
Surenyants, the founder of the historical genre in Armenian art, is
marked in Armenia on February 27.

Vardges Surenyants, the famous Armenian artist, translator and art
critic was born on February 27 in 1860 to a family of priest in the
town of Akhaltsikh. He studied at Moscow Lazarian Seminary, Munich
Academy of fine Arts. He also studied Armenian writing art and
miniature painting at the Library of Congregation of Mkhitarians in
Venice. He translated Shakespeare, Goethe and Haines.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS