Access Today The Missing Pages: The Modern Life Of A Medieval Manuscript, From Genocide To Justice Formulated By Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh Made Available In Hardcover

awed by the research done by Ms, Watenpaugh. Very enlightening about Armenian history and culture, the Armenian genocide, and history and ethnicity in that part of the near east, She makes a key point about destruction of culture as another aspect of genocide beyond the horror of death of millions of people, More illustrations would be great of course, but the photos do capture the wonder of Toros Roslin's work, This book was not exactly what I was expecting, I thought I was going to get more information on the missing illuminate manuscripts of the Bible from Armenia, There were very few pictures,

However, there was a history of the manuscripts and the mysterious artists who created them, This history is intertwined with the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman government, Froman estimated.million Armenians were murdered in an effort to ethnically "cleanse" the western part of Turkey and other regions of Armenian Christians,

The author also describes the area of Armenia under Soviet rule and also how the illuminated manuscripts ended up in museums, one of which was the Paul Getty Museum in California.


The author does her best to make a case for museums creating stricter measures and criteria for museums fielding possible artifacts and making sure that they are not buying priceless work from a source that pilfered the works.


I fully understand the need for not buying stolen artwork, but where Watenpaugh goes too far is when she begins demanding that all land or work sacred to a certain ethnic group be returned, such as land sacred to Native Americans or work of art that was stolen over a hundred years ago.
How can you return work to someone no longer alive

Also, it seems to me that museums are in the best position to preserve priceless works of art, which is why the owners of so many works loan them to museums, it staves off the tax man while letting the taxpayers maintain your priceless art.


The book was OK, but I'd like to read other, less slanted sources of Armenian history and especially a source more focused on the Bible manuscripts with a greater number of photos.
Traces a remarkable manuscript through centuries and across thousands of miles, Excellent historical read where the author tells the story of the Armenian genocide by following precious sacred manuscripts from religious institutions to the art market and high end museums.
The Armenian genocide is still not recognized as ever have occurred by the country of Turkey' In, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J, Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a centuryold genocide, The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval

Armenian artist, Toros Roslin, Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide, Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two, Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty,

The Missing Pages is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage, Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript's footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields ofAnatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom.


Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it, At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art.
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