Hovnatan Naghash

Hovnatan Naghash was born in 1661 in Shorot, in Nakhichevan, into a family of priests, and studied at the monastery of St Thomas in Agulis. He lived mostly between Tiflis and Yerevan; settled in Tiflis in 1710, he became a court minstrel there while working as a painter. His nickname, naghash, means painter in Persian: from 1712 to 1721 he directed the interior decoration of the cathedral of Etchmiadzin, and he founded a line of painters that lasted five generations. He died in 1722 in his native village.

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• PoetryՏաղերHovnatan Naghash · 1983not translated into EnglishLiterature