Levon Chookaszian is an Armenian

Armenians

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 art historian and the UNESCO

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 Chair of Armenian Art History (UNESCO CAAH). He is also currently the Head of Chair of History and Theory of Armenian Art at Yerevan State University

Yerevan State University

Yerevan State University is a university in Yerevan, Armenia. Founded on May 16 1919, it is the largest university in the country with 110 departments. Of its 3,150 employees, 1,190 comprise the teaching staff which includes 25 academicians, 130 professors, 700 docents , and 360 assistant lecturers...

. Professor Chookaszian has delivered numerous lectures, particularly on medieval Armenian art, at universities in the former Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, Europe

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, and the United States

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 and taught courses on Armenian art at UCLA.

He has authored dozens of articles and essays, many on the life of Armenian miniaturist Toros Roslin

Toros Roslin

Toros Roslin ; circa 1210–1270) was the most prominent Armenian manuscript illuminator in the High Middle Ages. Roslin introduced a wider range of narrative in his iconography based on his knowledge of western European art while continuing the conventions established by his predecessors...

, which have been published in scholarly journals, including Patma-Banasirakan Handes, Banber Yerevani Hamalsarani, Handes Amsorya

Handes Amsorya

Handes Amsorya Handes Amsorya Handes Amsorya (in is an academic journal that publishes research papers and articles on Armenian history, art, social sciences, linguistics and philology. It was established in 1887 by the Mekhitarian order in Vienna. The title means Monthly Review in Armenian....

, Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte and Revue des Études Arméniennes

Revue des Études Arméniennes

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Selected bibliography

"Կիրակոս Ծաղկող (The Painter Kirakos)." Usanoghakan Gitakan Asxatank'ner. vol. 17, 1975. "Մատենադարանի № 5576 ձեռագրի դրվագված կազմի մասին" ("On the Chased Binding of Manuscript № 5576 at the Matenadaran

Matenadaran

The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts , commonly referred to as the Matenadaran , is an ancient manuscript repository located in Yerevan, Armenia...

"). Patma-Banasirakan Handes. № 2, 1978. "Գրիգոր Ծաղկողի «Աստվածամոր Նինջը» մանրանկարը" ("The Miniature 'The Dormition of the Virgin' of Grigor Tsaghkogh"). Patma-banasirakan Handes. № 4, 1979. "Rubens und die Armenier." Wiener Jahrbuch fur Kunstgeschichte,Bd. XXXII, 1979, Wien-Koln-Graz, pp. 41–48. "Творчества Тороса Рослина И Византийская Монументальая Живопись" ("The Art of T'oros Roslin and Byzantine Monumental Painting"). Banber Yerevani Hamalsarani. №. 3, 1989

• "On a Portrait of Prince Levon and Princess Keran." Journal of Armenian Studies. vol. vi. № 2, 2000-2001. "L’Ouvre de T’oros Roslin et l’enluminure Byzantine." Revue des Études Arméniennes
  Revue des Études Arméniennes
  Revue des Études Arméniennes is a prominent French language academic journal dedicated to the study of Armenian history, art history, philology, linguistics, literature. The journal was founded by two French scholars who specialized in Armenian studies in Paris in 1920, Frédéric Macler and Antoine...
  
  . Tome 28, Paris, 2001–2002, pp. 399–424.
• "The Motif of the Sphinx in the Decoration of manuscripts Illuminated by T'oros Roslin" in Between Paris and Fresno, Armenian Studies in Honor of Dickran Kouymjian. Barlow Der Mugrdechian (ed.) (Armenian Studies Series, #13). Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2008.

External links

• Life and works of Toros Roslin by Levon Chookaszian. Armenian Studies at CSU Fresno.