Gohar Grigoryan

gohar.grigoryan@unifr.ch
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4996-7314

Chercheur·euse Senior, Département d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie

MIS 02 bu. 2020A
Av. de l'Europe 20
1700 Fribourg

MIS 02, 2020A

Domaines de compétences

Théologie politique et visualisation du pouvoir ; Études arméniennes et chrétiennes orientales; Codicologie et enluminures des manuscrits ; Terre Sainte et pèlerinage – matérialité et rites ; Architecture et liturgie ; Mécénat et pratiques religieuses et spirituelles des femmes ; Cultures matérielles et visuelles du Caucase et de Méditerranée orientale ; Esthétique médiévale ; Recherche de provenance ; Histoire de l'imprimerie arménienne (XVIe-XXe s.) ; Historiographie de l'art (XIXe-XXIe s.).

Recherche et publications

Conference papers

21 publications

An illustrated Armenian lawbook and the ceremonial mise-en-scène of the king’s body
112th CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, 14-17 February 2024 / ICMA-sponsored session: Medieval Ritual Representations: Model of or Model for? (17.2.2024) | Conférence

The East-West Paradigm in High Medieval Armenia: The Evidence of Polemical Writings and Visual Sources
Gohar Grigoryan, "Whose East? Defining, Challenging, and Exploring Eastern Christian Art”, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University: (11.11.2023) | Conférence

Cross as Apotropaic Weapon of Christ
Gohar Grigoryan, Spaces, Landscapes and Social Lives of the Cross in Medieval Armenia and Georgia, 6-7 November 2023, University of Fribourg: (7.11.2023) | Conférence

Sculpted Images and the Search for Eschatological Glory in Thirteenth-Century Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, Workshop: Sculpted Decorations of the Armenian Churches from the Twelfth to the Fourteenth Centuries, Yerevan: (16.9.2023) | Conférence

Representational Strategies of Righteous Rulership in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Gohar Grigoryan, Art and Power in Medieval Societies: Censorship, Propaganda and Public Service in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to Ottoman Era, Central European University (Budapest) / Institute for Advanced Study, CEMS: (19.5.2023) | Conférence

Rituals of Power in Cilician Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, The Armenians Face New Challenges: Seljuqs and Crusaders (1000-1240), University of Geneva / MESLO (in collaboration with Hebrew University, Jerusalem): (31.3.2023) | Conférence

Representational Strategies of Righteous Rulership in Cilician Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, Studientag, Institut für Antike und Byzanz, Universität Freiburg, CH: (21.10.2022) | Conférence

Cilician Armenian Gospel Manuscripts with Royal Images: A Classification
Illuminating the Eastern Christian World: Manuscripts, Illuminators and Scribes, University of Hamburg / Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures : (1.7.2022) | Conférence

Vanakan Vardapet's Monastery and the Holy Land
Workshop: Artistic Networks in the Caucasian Space: New Research and Perspectives, University of Fribourg, CH: (10.5.2022) | Conférence

Yovhannēs Pluz Erznkac‛i and the Aesthetics of Reception of Royal Images
XV General Conference of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg: (4.9.2021) | Conférence

Royal Images in the Sermons of Yovhannēs Pluz Erznkac‛i
Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective, University of Fribourg, CH: (24.11.2020) | Conférence

With or against Byzantium? Art Historiographical and Methodological Problems in Early Studies on Armenian Miniature Painting
Armenia & Byzantium: Perspectives on Cultural and Political Relations, University of Oxford: (22.3.2019) | Conférence

Why depict the king? Medieval Armenian reflections on royal images
Meanings and Functions of the Royal Portrait in the Mediterranean World (11th-15th cc.), Fribourg University, CH: (12.3.2019) | Conférence

Method and Manuscript
The Armenian Art: critical history and new perspectives, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice: (21.2.2019) | Conférence

Royal Epiphanies: The King’s Body as Image and Its Mise-en-scène in the Medieval Mediterranean
Nouvelles recherches sur l’Arménie ancienne, University of Geneva: (9.6.2018) | Conférence

The Study of Medieval Armenian Miniature Painting from the 19th Century until the 1920s
Gohar Grigoryan, Discovering the Southern Caucasus (1800-1930), University of Lausanne: (7.11.2017) | Conférence

Identities in Medieval Monuments of Modern Turkey and Armenia
Joint capstone conference organized by Courtauld Institute of Art & SOAS, University of London, within Getty's Connecting Art Histories Initiative: (12.7.2017) | Conférence

Changes in the Demonstration of Power as Outcome of a New Political Situation: Study of the Images of the First Three Kings of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (12th-13th cc)
Gohar Grigoryan, 14th Annual Graduate Colloquium in Armenian Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles: (12.2.2016) | Conférence

Manifestations of Mongol-Armenian Relations in the Art of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
Gohar Grigoryan, Élites chrétiennes et formes du pouvoir en Méditerranée centrale et orientale (XIIIe-XVe siècle), University of Nîmes & University Paul-Valéry-Montpellier: (19.6.2015) | Conférence

King Gagik Artzruni's Portrait on the Church of Aghtamar
Gohar Grigoryan, Le onzième centenaire d'Aght'amar : politique, art et spiritualité au royaume du Vaspourakan, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres & Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris: (23.9.2014) | Conférence

Հայաստանի առաջին տպարանի վաղ հրատարակությունները. ճշգրտումներ / Early Publications of the First Printing House of Armenia: Corrections and additions
Gohar Grigoryan, First Conference of Young Researchers in Armenian Studies, Matenadaran Research Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan: (22.3.2013) | Conférence
Lectures

12 publications

Armenians and Crusaders: Artistic Encounters (12th-14th cc.)
Gohar Grigoryan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Fribourg, CH (24.9.2024) | Conférence

Political Rituals and Urban Communities in Cilician Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, an East of Byzantium lecture, Harvard University & Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture (27.2.2024) | Conférence

Das illuminierte Evangelienbuch vom Mittelmeer zum Kaukasus / Le livre d'Évangiles enluminé de la Méditerranée au Caucase
Gohar Grigoryan, public block course (FS24) for Institute of Medieval Studies & Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Fribourg (2024) | Conférence

Der armenische Gawit: Form und Funktion / Le gavit arménien: forme et fonction
Gohar Grigoryan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Fribourg, CH (12.12.2023) | Conférence

Rituals of Power and the Ceremonial Display of the King’s Institution in Cilician Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Fribourg, CH (11.10.2023) | Conférence

Eastern Christian perceptions of the Mongols according to visual and textual sources
in frame of the lecture series "Byzanz Global", Universität zu Köln (*cancelled due to COVID) (25.6.2020) | Conférence

Mongol Epiphanies in the Late Medieval Mediterranean World: An Art-Historical Perspective
Gohar Grigoryan, Hebrew University, Jerusalem / Institute of Asian and African Studies / Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (5.12.2018) | Conférence

Königliche Porträts des armenischen Königreichs Kilikien (1198-1375) im interkulturellen Kontext des Mittelmeerraums
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München (23.5.2018) | Conférence

Künstlerischer Austausch im Mittelalter: ‘wandernde’ Symbole und Themen im armenischen Königreich Kilikien und in den Nachbarländern
Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Fribourg, CH (3.5.2016) | Conférence

Der armenische Genozid: Vorgeschichte, Organisierung und Verwirklichung
Gohar Grigoryan, public lecture, Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Muri-Gümligen, Bern (23.4.2016) | Conférence

Die königlichen Porträts des Armenischen Königreichs Kilikien
Gohar Grigoryan, Institute of Medieval Studies, University of Fribourg, CH (27.4.2015) | Conférence

Individuelles Porträt in der mittelalterlichen Kunst Armeniens (10.-14. J.h.)
Gohar Grigoryan, Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Fribourg, CH (14.10.2014) | Conférence
Online resources

2 publications

Manuscript description (Cod. 1513, Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Gohar Grigoryan , e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (2017) | Autre

Manuscript description (Cod. Bodmer 34, Martin Bodmer Foundation, Cologny/Geneva)
Gohar Grigoryan , e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland (2015) | Autre
Publications

25 publications

Images of Christ Emmanuel and Christus Victor in British Library Add. 19548 , dans Manuscript Treasures from Afro-Eurasia: Scribes, Patrons, Collectors, and Readers, ed. by J. Gnisci, S. Dege-Müller, J. Karlsson, and V. Pisani, in collaboration with A. Bausi (Berlin: De Gruyter), pp. 155-211
Gohar Grigoryan (2025), ISBN: 9783111636344 | Chapitre de livre

Political Rituals and Consolidation of Power in Cilician Armenia: The Evidence of the Coronation Ordo and Its Eurasian Entanglements
Gohar Grigoryan, Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 55/2 (2024) | Article

New Armenological Publications
Gohar Grigoryan , AIEA Newsletter 57, pp. 182-185 (2023) | Autre

Staging the Ruler's Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
Gohar Grigoryan (Brepols / Harvey Miller, 2023) | Ouvrage édité

A Jacobean Shell for Šahuk, “Servant of God” , dans Armenia through the Lens of Time: Multidisciplinary Studies in Honour of Theo Maarten van Lint (Leiden: Brill), pp. 56-79
Gohar Grigoryan (2023) | Chapitre de livre

Approaches to Sacred Space(s) in Medieval Subcaucasian Cultures
Gohar Grigoryan (Viella (Rome), 2023) | Ouvrage édité

The Construction of Sacred Spaces in Thirteenth-century Armenia: Liminal Experience and Spiritual Expectations within the 'Gawit' , dans Approaches to Sacred Space(s) in Medieval Subcaucasian Cultures (Rome: Viella), pp. 100-137
Gohar Grigoryan (2023) | Chapitre de livre

The ‘Just Judgement’ of King Lewon IV. Representational Strategies of Righteous Rulership in Cilician Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, Staging the Ruler's Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective (2023) | Article

Royal Images and Coronation Celebration in the Sermons of Yovhannēs Pluz Erznkac‛i , dans Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries) (Leiden: Brill), pp. 33-57
(2022) | Chapitre de livre

Armenian Colophons on the Takeover of Sis (1375). Addendum
Gohar Grigoryan, Revue des Études Arméniennes 41, pp. 631-632 (2022) | Article

Armenian Colophons on the Takeover of Sis (1375)
Revue des études arméniennes 40, pp. 85-99 (2021) | Article

Mariun: An Exiled Queen's Pilgrimage and Death in Jerusalem
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of the Middle East Medievalists 29, pp. 217-255 (2021) | Article

Au sujet de l’authenticité des deux feuillets d’un manuscript « cilicien »
Revue des études arméniennes 40, pp. 263-296 (2021) | Article

Մայր Աթոռ Սուրբ Էջմիածինը հայ գրատպության կենտրոն. Հրատարակությունների մատենագիտություն (1772-1920) / Bibliography of Publications of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin (1772-1920), edited, with introduction and notes by Gohar Grigoryan, 744 pages
Gohar Grigoryan (Press of Etchmiadzin Catholicossate, 2021) | Ouvrage édité

Medieval contexts and modern realities of a Genocide-survivor artwork: A review article of Heghnar Watenpaugh's The Missing Pages
Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 27/1, pp. 117-130 (2020) | Article

Two Armenian Manuscripts in Switzerland (with an annotated translation of a newly-found abridgement of the Commentary of Canon Tables attributed to Step‛anos Siwnec‛i)
Le Muséon 133/1-2, pp. 87-139 (2020) | Article

King Gagik Arcruni's Portrait on the Church of Alt'amar
Grigoryan, Gohar, Church of the Holy Cross of alt'amar: Politics, Art, Spirituality in the Kingdom of Vaspurakan (2019) | Article

Ֆամագուստայի հայկական եկեղեցու որմնանկարները / The Frescoes of the Armenian Church of Famagusta (Cyprus) , dans Հայկական որմնանկարչություն / Armenian Frescoes, ed. by Karen Matevosyan (Yerevan: Matenadaran), pp. 286-288, 393-394
Gohar Grigoryan (2019) | Chapitre de livre

The "Heritage of Ancestors": Early Studies on Armenian Manuscripts and Miniature Painting
Venezia Arti 27, pp. 81-102 (2018) | Article

Royal Images of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (1198-1375) in the Context of Mediterranean Intercultural Exchange (University of Fribourg, CH)
(2017) | Thèse

On the Interpretation of the Crosses Carved on the External Walls of the Armenian Church in Famagusta
Grigoryan, Gohar, Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage: Prayers Long Silent (2017) | Article

Manifestations of Mongol-Armenian Relations in the Royal Art of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. A study on the Prince Lewon’s robe depicted in the manuscript No. 8321 (Yerevan, Matenadaran, fol. 15r) , dans Élites chrétiennes et formes du pouvoir en Méditerranée centrale et orientale (XIIIe-XVe siècle) (Paris: Classiques Garnier), pp. 251-300
Gohar Grigoryan (2017) | Chapitre de livre

Հայաստանի առաջին տպարանի վաղ հրատարակությունների մասին. Ճշգրտումներ / Updated Information on the Early Publications of the First Printing House in Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, Bulletin of Matenadaran 22, pp. 499-506 (2015) | Article

The Roots of Tempietto and Its Symbolism in Armenian Gospels
Iconographica. Studies in the History of Images 13, pp. 11-24 (2014) | Article

«Իսահակի զոհաբերության» պատկերագրությունը եւ խորհրդաբանությունը հայ մանրանկարչության մեջ / The Iconography and Symbolism of "The Sacrifice of Isaac" in Armenian Miniature Painting
Gohar Grigoryan, Etchmiadzin Journal 8/68, pp. 88-95 (2012) | Article