Levon Chookaszian

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birth_date = April 9, 1952
birth_place = Yerevan, Armenia
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field = Armenian studies, medieval Armenian art
work_institutions = Yerevan State University, UNESCO
alma_mater = Yerevan State University
doctoral_advisor = Victor Lazareff
Tatiana Izmailova
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known_for = "The Art of the 13th century Armenian Painter Grigor Calkol" ¹
"The Art of Toros Roslin in the Context of the Cultural Relations of Cilician Armenia of the 13th century" ²
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footnotes = ¹ Dissertation, Georgian Academy of Sciences, 1982.
² Dissertation, Institute of the Art of the Ministry of Culture of Russia, Moscow, 2001.

Levon Chookaszian ( _hy. Լևոն Բաբկենի Չուգասզյան, born April 9, 1952) is an Armenian art historian and the UNESCO Chair of Armenian Art History (UNESCO CAAH). [ [http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1589&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html Profile of Chookaszian at UNESCO Education] . UNESCO. Accessed September 21, 2008.] He is also currently the Head of Chair of History and Theory of Armenian Art at Yerevan State University. [ [http://www.ysu.am/site/index.php?lang=2&page=3&p_num=&id=9 Faculty of History] . Yerevan State University. Accessed September 21, 2008.] Professor Chookaszian has delivered numerous lectures, particularly on medieval Armenian art, at universities in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and the United States. [Mamigonian, Marc A. " [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-79124909.html Prof. Levon Chookaszian Speaks on Early Armenian Christian Art] ". "The Armenian Reporter". April 6, 2002. Retrieved September 21, 2008.] [Tiftick, Caitlin. " [http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/hye_sharzhoom/vol28/dec06/chookaszian_lec_2.aspx Kazan Visiting Professor Levon Chookaszian Gives His Second Lecture On Armenian Art] ". Fresno State University Armenian Studies Program. December 2006, Vol. 28, No. 2 (96). Accessed September 21, 2008.]

He has authored dozens of articles and essays, many on the life of Armenian miniaturist Toros Roslin, which have been published in scholarly journals, including "Patma-Banasirakan Handes", "Banber Yerevani Hamalsarani", "Handes Amsorya", "Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte", "Revue des etudes Arméniennes", and the "Journal of Society of Armenian Studies".

Published works

Below is a partial list of Chookaszian's works. All works are published in Armenian unless otherwise noted.
*"Kirakos Calkol (Painter Kirakos)”, Usanolakan gitakan Asxatank'ner (Student Scientific studies), vol. 17, 1975, Yerevan, Yerevan State University Press, pp. 175-183.
*"Matenadarani N 5576 jeragri drvagvac kazmi masin (On the Chased Binding of Manuscript N 5576 of the Matenadaran)", "Patma-Banasirakan Handes", Yerevan 1978, No. 2, pp. 117-128.
*"Ejk'e dzolk`" manrankare T`argmanc`ac` Avetanarum (The Miniature "The Harrowing of the Hell" in the T`argmanc`ac` Gospel)", "Banber Yerevani Hamalsarani", No. 1, 1979, pp. 166-175.
*"Grigor Calkoli "Astvacamor Ninje" manrankare (The Miniature "The Dormition of the Virgin" of Grigor Calkol)". Patma-banasirakan Handes, No. 4(1979, pp. 115-126).
*de icon "Rubens und die Armenier." Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte,Bd. XXXII, 1979, Wien-Koln-Graz, pp. 41-48.
*"T`argmanc`ac` Avetarani manrankarc`ut`yune (The Miniatures of the T`argmanc`ac Gospel), "Sovetakan Hayastan", 1980, No. 9, p. 2, reprinted in "Haratch" (Paris), 1981, March 7-8, No. 14 (859).
*"Vastakavor gitnakane (S. Ter-Nersesjani cnndyan 85-amyaki artiv). (The Meritorious scholar, on the occasion of the 85th anniversary of Sirarpie Der-Nersessian)", Grakan Tert, (Yerevan), November 6, 1981, p. 4, reprinted in Asbares (Boston), April 1, 1982, p. 6.
*ru icon "Miniatjura Torosa Roslina- 'Perexod ceres Krasnoe more'" (Toros Roslin’s Miniature of the Crossing of the Red Sea”)," Lraber hasarakakan gitutyunneri", 1990, No. 10, pp. 32-43.
*en icon "On a Portrait of Prince Levon and Princess Keran." "Journal of Armenian Studies", vol. VI, No.2, 2000-2001, pp. 73-88.
*fr icon "L’Ouvre de T’oros Roslin et l’enluminure byzantine." "Revue des etudes Arméniennes", T. 28, Paris, 2001-2002, pp. 399-424.
*en icon "The Motif of the Sphinx in the Decoration of manuscripts Illuminated by Toros Roslin." Between Paris and Fresno, Armenian Studies in Honor of Dickran Kouymjian, Barlow Der Mugrdechian (ed.) (Armenian Studies Series, #13),Costa Mesa, 2008, pp.65-90.

External links

* [http://armenianstudies.csufresno.edu/ArmeniaDigitalProject/index.html Life and works of Toros Roslin by Levon Chookaszian] . Armenian Studies at CSU Fresno.

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