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"The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript from Genocide to Justice"

Lecture by Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh

Event Details

Date
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Time
5 p.m.
Description
Art history, histories of genocide, cultural heritage, and the questions of the continuity of the medieval and the modern intersect in the biography of a medieval Armenian Gospels manuscript. Eight of its illuminated pages were discovered in the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2010, prompting a lawsuit. The tale of the separation of the pages from the manuscript tells a story of genocide and survival, and makes the case for a human right to art.
Cost
Free

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