Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896-1989). Pioneer of Armenian Art History

Dickran Kouymjian 491
publications, see note 5 and the bibliography. Anewly published work, the Wrst in a projected
three volume series, provides the scholar’s systematic archives on Armenian painting with all
her unpublished notes, as well as a biography lavished with photographs in the form of a
chronology (Agémian, Archives Sirarpie Der Nersessian, Catalogue).
3. Ormanean, Azgapatum.
4. Der Nersessian with Millet, “Le Psautier arménien illustré.”
5. The articles on Byzantine miniatures are conveniently listed in the bibliography of Sirarpie
Der Nersessian published on the occasion of her seventieth birthday in Revue des études
arméniennes, n.s., 3 (1966): 3–6. The bibliography was brought up to date in Der Nersessian,
Études byzantines et arméniennes. Byzantine and Armenian Studies 2:167–70, and again after her
death in Revue des études arméniennes, n.s., 21 (1988–89): 8–11.
6. Der Nersessian, L’Illustration des psautiers grecs.
7. Der Nersessian, L’Illustration du “Roman de Barlaam et Joasaph.” Der Nersessian, “Illustrations
of the Homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus.”
9. J. S. Allen, “Sirarpie Der Nersessian,” 337.
10. The Wrst volume, Roman de Barlaam et Joasaph, received the Fould Prize of the Académie
des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Paris, and the second, Manuscrits arméniennes illustrès,
received the Prize of the Association des Études greques, Paris.
11. These are listed in the bibliography.
12. Der Nersessian, Miniature Painting, 1.
13. Der Nersessian, Miniature Painting, 3.
14. Kouymjian, “Problem of the Zoomorphic Figure.”
15. Der Nersessian, Miniature Painting, 3, 11 n. 86, 12.
16. Ibid., 29
17. Ibid., 35.
18. Ibid., 59, 63a, 63b.
19. Yovsēp’ian, Album of Armenian Paleography For a recent discussion of his paleographic
insights, see Kouymjian, “Garegin Yovsēp’ian.” Yovsēp’ian’s Colophons of Manuscripts.
Select Bibliography of Works by Sirarpie Der Nersessian
“Illustrations de Nicéphore Phocas et de l’épopée Byzantine: Répertoire méthodique.” In
Mélanges oVerts à Gustave Schlumberger. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1924.
With Gabriel Millet. “Le Psautier arménien illustré.” Revue des études arméniennes 9 (1929):
137–81.
“The Date of the Initial Miniatures of the Etchmiadzin Gospel.” Art Bulletin 15, no. 4 (1933):
327–60. Reprinted in Der Nersessian, Études byzantines et arméniennes, 1: 533–58.
L’Illustration du “Roman de Barlaam et Joasaph.” 2 vols. Paris: Librairie E. de Boccard, 1936–37.
Manuscrits arméniens illustrès des XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe siècles de la Bibliothèque des Pères Mekhitaristes
de Venise. 2 vols. Paris: Librairie E. de Boccard, 1937.
“The Direct Approach in the Study of Art History.” College Art Journal 1 (1942): 54–60.
“Une apologie des images du septième siècle.” Byzantion 14 (1944/45): 58–87. Reprinted in Der
Nersessian, Études byzantines et arméniennes, 1: 379–404.
Armenia and the Byzantine Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947.
The Chester Beatty Library: A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts, with an Introduction on the
History of Armenian Art. 2 vols. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Co., 1958.