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Toros Roslin

c. 1210–1270 · 13th century

Toros Roslin was the most celebrated Armenian manuscript illuminator of the Middle Ages, active at Hromkla in the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia. Between about 1256 and 1268 he produced richly painted gospel books for the catholicos and the royal family, combining Armenian tradition with Byzantine and Western influences. Seven manuscripts signed by him survive.

Toros Roslin
Image: Benoît Prieur · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons

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Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

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