Medieval History
About 30 protesters on Saturday called on the Getty Museum to return seven ornate pages from a sacred, medieval-era Armenian book considered to be a national treasure.
The protesters gathered outside the gates of the museum Saturday holding signs that read "Shame on Getty" and ?Our history is not for sale" as Armenian church officials attempt to secure the pages, which they say were illegally obtained by the museum nearly two decades ago.
?It is a piece of culture taken away from us. It is a piece of our identity. It is a piece of our past,? said Glendale resident Rita Mahdessian.
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The Getty Museum is in a legal fight over Armenian Bible pages
The J. Paul Getty Trust failed Thursday to derail a lawsuit by the Armenian Orthodox Church that accuses the museum of harboring stolen illuminated medieval manuscripts ? 755-year-old works that are masterpieces and, to the church, spiritually and historically sacred.
After a brief hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Abraham Khan denied the Getty's motion to dismiss the claim. The museum's attorneys argued that the deadline for filing the suit had passed decades ago under the statute of limitations. But the judge said that's "not clear" and ordered four months of mediation, scheduling a March 2 resumption if the case isn't settled.
At that point, the judge said, he might focus on the complicated history of the pages' journey from the Turkish region of Cilicia to America during and after the World War I-era Armenian genocide, in order to determine whether the suit filed last year meets the six-year statute of limitations.
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Medieval History
Protesters call on Getty to relinquish medieval manuscripts
The protesters gathered outside the gates of the museum Saturday holding signs that read "Shame on Getty" and ?Our history is not for sale" as Armenian church officials attempt to secure the pages, which they say were illegally obtained by the museum nearly two decades ago.
?It is a piece of culture taken away from us. It is a piece of our identity. It is a piece of our past,? said Glendale resident Rita Mahdessian.
Click here to read this article from the Burbank Leader
The Getty Museum is in a legal fight over Armenian Bible pages
The J. Paul Getty Trust failed Thursday to derail a lawsuit by the Armenian Orthodox Church that accuses the museum of harboring stolen illuminated medieval manuscripts ? 755-year-old works that are masterpieces and, to the church, spiritually and historically sacred.
After a brief hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Abraham Khan denied the Getty's motion to dismiss the claim. The museum's attorneys argued that the deadline for filing the suit had passed decades ago under the statute of limitations. But the judge said that's "not clear" and ordered four months of mediation, scheduling a March 2 resumption if the case isn't settled.
At that point, the judge said, he might focus on the complicated history of the pages' journey from the Turkish region of Cilicia to America during and after the World War I-era Armenian genocide, in order to determine whether the suit filed last year meets the six-year statute of limitations.
Click here to read this article from the Los Angeles Times
- ?in The Beginning Was The Word?: Medieval Gospel Illumination Exhibition At The Getty
The J. Paul Getty Museum has unveiled its latest exhibition earlier this week, which gives visitors the opportunity to see how the four gospels were seen in the Middle Ages. Drawing primarily from the Getty Museum?s permanent collection, ?In the Beginning...
- Getty Museum Displays Stories To Watch: Narrative In Medieval Manuscripts
The illuminators of medieval manuscripts found creative ways to tell stories through pictures. A sequence of illustrations was often linked on a page, or several parts of a tale were incorporated in a single image. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
- The Walters Art Museum To Digitize 38 000 Medieval Manuscript Pages
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $315,000 for a two and a half year project to digitize, catalog and distribute 105 illuminated medieval manuscripts. Representing diverse Byzantine, Greek, Armenian, Ethiopian,...
- Medieval Armenian Church Collapses
A major section of a 14th century Armenian church in Tbilisi, Georgia, collapsed Wednesday evening, after years of neglect by the authorities to repair the historic structure, reported the Georgian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church on Thursday....
- Canadian Society For Syriac Studies
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