"ARMENIA SACRA" OPENED IN LOUVRE
ArmRadio.am
20.02.2007 10:49
Monday, French presidents Jacques Chirac and Armenian Robert Kocharyan
inaugurated exposition "Armenia sacra", completely devoted to the
Armenian Christian art , presented for the first time to the museum
of the Louvre at Paris.
The two presidents visited for an hour this exposition that, through
200 works of art, gives an idea of specificity and brightness of the
Christian art of Armenians.
Mr. Chirac, accompanied by Minister of the Culture Renaud Donnedieu
de Vabres notably delayed in front of the "reliquary of the Noah’s
Arch", containing a wood mineral piece discovered in the XVII.
He was able to admire 30 Khachkars, of which the oldest one dates
back to the IX century and exposed in the ditches of the medieval
Louvre, evoking a near disposal of their environment in Armenia,
and in front of gospels of which a with a binding in ivory in dates
back to the X century.
"Armenia sacra" is presented to the public from February 21 to May
21 2007, in the framework Year of Armenia in France.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
