PECULIARITIES OF LORI-GUGARK ARCHITECTURAL SCHOOL OF MEDIEVAL ARMENIA (BY THE EXAMPLE OF CHALCEDONIAN MONASTERY COMPLEXES OF THE X-XIII CENTURIES)
Baragamyan Baregam Olegovich
Don State Technical University
Submitted: 28.11.2018
Abstract. The article analyses the architectural techniques, constructive peculiarities, layout variants, ornamental motifs of architectural monuments of the Armenian Chalcedonian monasteries Akhtala, Gndevank, Kobayr, Khuchap. The analysis has allowed the author to identify the peculiarities of Lori-Gugark architectural school of Northern Armenia: using basalt as building material, mainly smoothly cut stones, moderate decoration, the Georgian decoration motifs conditioned by historical and political context.
Key words and phrases: архитектура средневековой Армении, Лори-Гугаркская школа, халкидонитские монастыри, композиционные типы храмов, взаимосвязь грузинского и армянского средневекового зодчества, architecture of medieval Armenia, Lori-Gugark school, Chalcedonian monasteries, compositional decisions of churches, interrelation of Georgian and Armenian medieval architecture
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