In 2017, an Italian student Vittoria Dall’Armellina was visiting the Mkhitarist monastery on San Lazzaro in Venice when she spotted a familiar looking sword. The sword was mistakenly labeled as a medieval artifact and was thought to be a few hundred years old. It turns out it’s one of the oldest known weapons in...
Armenian atlas sold for $37,500 at an Auction in New York
This beautiful atlas was created by Hovhannes Amira Dadian from the Armenian Mekhitarist monastery located on the Venetian island of San Lazzaro in 1849. This is the first atlas in the Armenian language and boasts ten hand-colored double-page maps, including one of the solar system. During the Swann Galleries’ biannual auction of Maps & Atlases,...
Venice – Armenia bonded in history
I found this wonderful article (from New York Times) full of interesting insights into the historic relations between the Italian city of Venice and Armenia. EXHIBITION REVIEW The Key to Armenia’s Survival By RODERICK CONWAY MORRIS Published: February 23, 2012 VENICE — Armenian civilization is one of the most ancient of those surviving in the Middle East, but...
William Dean Howells (1837) about Armenians
This is a chapter about the Armenians of Venice from William Dean Howells’s documentary book “Venetian Life”. The author is known for his great work on realistic descriptions of places, events and people. In this chapter called “The Armenians” he describes the life and people of Armenian clergy of Venice, San Lazzaro. The same...
