Naghach Hovnatan
Naghash Hovnatan (Armenian: Նաղաշ Հովնաթան; 1661, Shorot, Nakhijevan, Safavid Iran – 1722, Shorot) was an Armenian poet, ashugh, painter, and founder of the Hovnatanian artistic family. He is considered the founder of the new Armenian minstrel school, following medieval Armenian lyric poetry.
Also recorded as Naghash Hovnatan
Naghach Hovnatan
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- Born
- 1661. · Şurud.
- Died
- 1722. · Şurud.
- Nationality
- Safavid Iran.
- Occupation
- scribe, painter, poet and ashik.
- Languages
- Persian.
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Hovnatan was born to a priestly family in Nakhijevan (at the time part of the Erivan Province in the Safavid Empire) in the village of Shorot. He studied at the Saint Thomas Monastery in Agulis. Hovnatan spent most of his life in Tbilisi and Yerevan and is considered one of the most prominent representatives of late medieval secular Armenian poetry, his work is closest to the work of ashughs. In 1710 he moved to Tbilisi, where, in addition to being a painter, he also became a court ashugh. Hovnatan authored more than a hundred satirical, romantic, drinking, and edifying or admonitory songs and odes. As a painter, Hovnatan undertook the interior decoration of the Etchmiadzin Cathedral in 1712, which was completed by 1721. The nickname "naghash" means "painter" in Persian. In 1983, a collection of his poems in Armenian was published in Yerevan.
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Naghach Hovnatan (1661 – 1722) is described as a painter, writer and singer in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Naghach Hovnatan was born in 1661 and died in 1722.
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1661
Naghach Hovnatan born at Şurud.
1722
Naghach Hovnatan died at Şurud.
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- 1.Basmajian, Gabriel. The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Sixth to the Eighteenth Century, Volume II. Wayne State University Press. 867–872. 2000. 0814330231.
- 2.Steffen, James. The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov. University of Wisconsin Press. 118. 31 October 2013. 978-0299296537.
- 3.UNESCO. Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots. World Heritage Convention.
- 4.WorldCat. Tagher (Livre, 1983). 13327101.
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