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folk-songs and poetry of
Armenia ... It is impossible to read its graceful, varied, and musical verses without realizing that the choice has been directed by an intimate knowledge of the country's characteristic literature and that the pieces included are rendered with a skill that knows how to bring over to another language some of its typical accents and inspirations ... The color work is indeed particularly fine, and will be admired by all who know how to appreciate good work.
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Readers who are curious concerning
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Here is a magnificent book ... Noble garland of
Armenian flowers, and gallery of pictures that Miss Boyajian has given us—pictures in which the pre-Raphaelite note is splendidly dominant; pre-Raphaelite, that is to say, Byzantine or Armenian art
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Boyajian's paintings cover a great deal of ground. They include portraits, landscapes, and decorative panels. These last are in two groups, the one illustrating the artist's own published versions of
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Germany in 1920, in Egypt in 1928, in France, in Italy, and in Belgium between 1940-50.
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Khayyam ... Harmony of color rather than of line or mass is her main preoccupation, and she achieves it without doing violence to nature's own color schemes.
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about the massacres in Sasun, was published under the pen name
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299:Zoryan Institute Archives.
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955:Agriculture
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461:Hayasa-Azzi
183:Shakespeare
163:James Bryce
123:Tigranakert
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858:Government
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624:Qajar Iran
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287:References
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111:Diyarbakır
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875:Judiciary
848:Elections
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728:Geography
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579:Sallarids
269:Gilgamesh
191:Euripides
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481:Urumeans
419:timeline
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273:Rubaiyat
249:revived.
99:Armenian
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79:Painting
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466:Mitanni
436:Origins
412:History
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429:Early
211:Books
187:Byron
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