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Trdat (architect)

Trdat, also known as Trdat the Architect (Armenian: Տրդատ ճարտարապետ) and Trdat of Ani (Տրդատ Անեցի, Trdat Anetsi)


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John Julius Norwich: "Armenia's greatest architect"[1]

While the circumstances in which he was asked to repair the dome are unknown, Sirarpie Der Nersessian suggested that the fact alone "is in itself a sufficient indication of his renown."[2] Richard Krautheimer was somewhat dismissive of Trdat's role in Constantinople. He suggested that he "might have been summoned as a technician."[3]

Rouben Paul Adalian: When, in 989, an earthquake damaged the vast dome of Justinian's temple, the authorities called on the Armenian architect Trdat to repair Christendom's largest church. Trdat's reputation had preceded him in Byzantium; he was already building the sumptuous churches of Ani and his masterpiece, the Church of the Holy Mother of God ( 989-1001 ), the city's cathedral, thus making him a rare figure of international repute in medieval architecture. Trdat's superb engineering skills transformed Armenian architecture as, following his examples, architects designed new edifices with a finer sense of artistry and with a keener attention to aesthetic values than had been ventured earlier.[4]

Gevorg Devrikyan authored a novel about Trdat in 1983[5] and Ara Harutyunyan created a bronze statuette of him in 1987.[6]

Seta Dadoyan: Architects Trdat in Ani and Manuel in Alt'amar had very different styles and, as such, were a part ofthe new and more individualistic styles of the period. [4. T'oros T'oramanean, Haykakan Cartarapetut'twn, Collected Works 1 [Armenian Architecture, Collected Worksm Vol. I], (Erevan: 1952),92.][7]

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Sirarpie Der Nersessian suggested that he was a layman.[8]

Garbis Armen suggested that Trdat may have transferred earthquake-proofing innovations, especially features of the dome, found at the seventh century Saint Hripsime Church in Vagharshapat such as ribs, narrow windows and short buttresses to stabilize the dome against lateral thrust, to Hagia Sophia.[9]

Jonathan Shepard: Moreover there are Armenian-language graffiti suggestive of the presence of Armenian workmen in Kiev around 1000. An Armenian architect, Trdat, had supervised the partial rebuilding of Constantinople's St Sophia after the earthquake of 989 and it could be that Anna had, through her brothers, personal connexions with Trdat or his compatriots, recruiting them to take part in building works in Rus.95[10]


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Hagia Sophia

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Johannes Preiser-Kapeller: One example for the mobility of an artisan from Armenia to Byzantium is Trdat, architect and mason, who according to the Armenian historian Stephen of Taron travelled to Constantinople and was entrusted with the restoration of the Hagia Sophia, which had been damaged by an earthquake in October 989. However, to our disappointment, his accomplishment found no echo in the Byzantine sources, which mention the damage and reconstruction of the Ha- gia Sophia, but not Trdat. At the same time, we learn from Stephen of Taron that Trdat was the architect of the church of the Armenian Katholikos in Argina and of the Cathedral of Ani for King Smbat Bagratuni; we can therefore assume that he was closely connected with the Armenian elite.[11]


widely accepted in modern scholarship

Ormonde Maddock Dalton: ...when in the tenth century the dome of S. Sophia was damaged by earthquake, it was to an Armenian architect, Trdat, builder of the cathedral of Ani, that the work of restoration was entrusted.[12]

Eastern Medieval Architecture: The Building Traditions of ... Robert G. Ousterhout, ‎Robert Ousterhout · 2019 - Page 366 [1] 

Texts also relate the Armenian architect Trdat in the capital at the time of the earthquake of 989, and he was hired to intervene following the collapse of the western portion of the dome of Hagia Sophia.26 That an Armenian would be awarded this prestig- ious and difficult commission suggests the respect accorded Caucasian architecture at this time.



main sources

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  • Hasratyan, Murad (2014). "Տրդատը որպես Անիի Սբ Փրկիչ եկեղեցու ճարտարապետ [Trdat as the Architect of the Holy Savor of Ani]". Scientific works (in Armenian). 17 (5–8). Shirak Centre of Armenological Studies of NAS RA. PDF

Lucy Der Manuelian, "Trdat," Dictionary of the Middle Ages 12: 164-65. https://pdfupload.io/docs/9b92f940

secondary sources

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  • Watenpaugh, Heghnar Z. (2014). "The Cathedral of Ani, Turkey: From Church to Monument". In Gharipour, Mohammad (ed.). Sacred Precincts: The Religious Architecture of Non-Muslim Communities Across the Islamic World. Brill. pp. 460–473. doi:10.1163/9789004280229_027.
Watenpaugh https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/edcoll/9789004280229/B9789004280229-s027.pdf
It was built between 989 and 1001 by Trdat, the most celebrated architect of medieval Armenia, who famously repaired the dome of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople


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Trdat was an architect who, in the view of many Armenian archeologists, personified the School of Ani, and who became famous for his participation in the restoration of St. Sophia in Constantinople. In Armenia, we know that he built not only St. Gregory of Gagik, the cathedral at Ani and the church at Агата (Asofik of Taron), but also attributed to him are other structures, such as the church of the Holy Seal at Hafbat (Yovhanneés of Crimea), and the surrounding walls at Ani. This is perhaps a hasty suggestion, notably by T‘ora- manyan, since it is not easy discern the characteristics of Trdat’s works from only three buildings, of which two (St. Gregory and Argina) have long since col- lapsed, and the third (the cathedral at Ani) was altered in the 13" century.

THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SAVIOR (Surb P'rkic‘, or Amenap’rkic' This is in the eastern part of the city, and its whole history is contained in its inscriptions. The building was completed in 1036 under Prince Abllarib Pahlavid to shelter a fragment of the True Cross brought back from Constantinople. It is probably the work of the architect Trdat, whose name is engraved on top of the south facade |S. Barxudaryan).


Varazdat Harutyunyan http://serials.flib.sci.am/openreader/Hay%20joxovrdi%20patmutyun_%20h.3/book/index.html#page/1032/mode/1up Ճարտարապետություն (Վ. Մ. Հարությունյան) 

1. Դարաշրչանի ճարտարապետության հիմնական հատկանիշները 366
2. Քաղաքաշինություն, քաղաքացիական ճարտարապետություն 369
3. Եյունիքի ճարտարապետական դպրոցը 378 
4. Վասպուրականի ճարտարապետական դպրոցը 381
5. Հյուսխալին Հայաստանի ճարտարապետությունը. Անի-Շիրակի դպրոցը 384 [2]


The Study of the Architectural Heritage of Ani: Current Issues and Recent Publications https://actual-art.spbu.ru/en/publications/archive/vol-12/byzantine-and-eastern-christian-art/10927.html

https://actual-art.org/files/sb/12/Kazaryan.pdf

short quotes

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Adrian Stokes: An Architectonic Eye : Critical Writings on Art and Architecture By Stephen Kite, p. 48 

To Near Eastern scholars the Armenian cathedral at Ani ( 989-1001 ), designed by Trdat ( 972-1036 ), seemed to anticipate Gothic

The Heritage of Armenian Literature, Volume 2 By Agop Jack Hacikyan p. 317 [3] 

Besides being an invaluable source of information about the history of Armenia's neighbors and Armenian political life, Taronetsi's Univer- sal History also discusses the cultural life of his time, mentioning the names of the principal cultural centers and the most renowned scholars, scientists, and architects. Notably, he describes the work of the famous architect Trdat, whose constructions, including the Cathedral of Ani, graced several Armenian cities and even Constantinople: it was Trdat who planned and supervised the initial stages of the rebuilding of the dome of Constantinople's famous cathedral, Santa Sophia, which had been destroyed by an earthquake in 986. A notable feature of the work is also the author's attempt to provide accurate dates an attempt that was highly successful, particularly in the third part of the work.

James Allan Stewart Evans: Much of his dome still remains: the western arch of the four supporting it came down in 986 (or 989) and was rebuilt by an Armenian architect named Trdat, and the eastern arch fell in the fourteenth century and was rebuilt with contributions raised in Russia.153[14]


The Armenians: Art, Culture and Religion - Nira Stone, ‎Michael E. Stone · 2007 – Page 48 

... architect known to us by name was Trdat who lived in the tenth century .


Armen Kazaryan The “Classical” Trend of the Armenian Architectural School of Ani: The Greco-Roman Model and the Conversion of Medieval Art https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118832813.ch44 https://pdfupload.io/docs/90bdf888


https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/ahti-20/125944764 critical view; descriptions by Armen Kazaryan Architectural Image and Structural System: Two Churches of Ani in the Epoch of the Bagratids https://pdfupload.io/docs/608c9e94


https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rihajournal/article/view/70195 criticism of Murad Hasratyan's attribution of Prkich to Trdat https://pdfupload.io/docs/7f6ed815


https://www.jstor.org/stable/3048994 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00043079.1972.10789382 Zvart'nots and the Origins of Christian Architecture in Armenia by W. Eugene Kleinbauer


https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/499830?journalCode=aja Haghia Sophia, Istanbul: Preliminary Report of a Recent Examination of the Structure William Emerson and Robert L. van Nice 

Though frequently shaken by earthquakes since the sixth century, it has been injured on but two occasions: the western arch and part of the dome collapsed in 986 and were restored by 994 under direction of an Armenian architect, Trdat. [MORE]

https://www.jstor.org/stable/987423 Hagia Sophia: New Types of Structural Evidence Robert L. van Nice

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15583058.2015.1104400 Thermographic Survey at Hagia Sophia: Main Arches, Pendentives and Tympana

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1523305 A Muqarnas Drawing from Thirteenth-Century Armenia and the Use of Architectural Drawings during the Middle Ages Armen Ghazarian and Robert Ousterhout

John Beckwith (curator) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquaries-journal/article/abs/armenians-by-sirarpie-der-nersessian-8-6-pp-216-32-pls-48-figs-thames-hudson-1969-2-2s-210/9D80F295F3E389DE42217F36384B5F69 In the tenth century an Armenian architect Trdat was summoned to restore the great church of Holy Wisdom at Constantinople; in the thirteenth century T'oros Roslin, working in the scriptorium of the patriarchal see at Hromkla in Cicilia, was an astonishing and original painter who produced masterpieces worthy to rank with the best Byzantine artists.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118832813.ch42 Armenian Culture and Classical Antiquity Armen Kazaryan, Gohar Muradyan

https://www.jstor.org/stable/307202 Reviewed Work: Armenia: Cradle of Civilization David Marshall Lang Review by: Sonia Ketchian 

The cathedral at Ani, constructed by the brilliant architect Trdat, who successfully reinforced the dome of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Constantinople, antedates Gothic architecture.


https://academic.oup.com/arthistory/article-abstract/26/4/505/7278753 ‘South Opposed to East and North’: Adrian Stokes and Josef Strzygowski. A study in the aesthetics and historiography of Orientalism Get access Arrow Stephen Kite 

to see the builder, the court architect Trdat, carrying Armenian art so logically

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1291336 Observations on the Church of Panagia Kamariotissa on Heybeliada (Chalke), Istanbul with a Note on Panagia Kamariotissa and Some Imperial Foundations of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries at Constantinople Thomas F. Mathews and Cyril Mango 

Evidence of cultural exchange between the two kingdoms is found on many levels-the work of Trdat, Ani's most famous architect, on the restoration of Hagia Sophia in 989

References

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  1. ^ Norwich, John Julius (1975). Great Architecture of the World. New York: Random House & American Heritage. p. 88.
  2. ^ Der Nersessian, Sirarpie (1969). Armenians. New York: Praeger. pp. 108–109.
  3. ^ Krautheimer, Richard (1965). Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Penguin Books. p. 235.
  4. ^ Adalian, Rouben Paul (2010). Historical Dictionary of Armenia. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 98. ISBN 978-0-8108-7450-3.
  5. ^ Devrikyan, Gevorg [in Armenian] (1983). Տրդատ ճարտարապետ : Վեպ (in Armenian). Yerevan: Sovetakan ghrogh.
  6. ^ Տրդատ ճարտարապետը: Բրոնզ: "Տրդատ ճարտարապետը". araharutyunyan.com (in Armenian). Archived from the original on 30 October 2024.; Տրդատ ճարտարապետը: 1987 "Հաստոցային քանդակ". araharutyunyan.com (in Armenian). Archived from the original on 30 October 2024.
  7. ^ Dadoyan, Seta (2013). The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Vol. 2: Armenian Realpolitik in the Islamic World and Diverging Paradigmscase of Cilicia Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries. Routledge. p. 202. ISBN 9781138515406.
  8. ^ Der Nersessian, Sirarpie (1973). Byzantine and Armenian Studies. Impr. orientaliste. p. 305. The artisans of the cities were principally laymen, some of whom rose to great prominence. The absence of any title or addition of the word cleric or monk leads one to suppose that the architect Trdat of Ani, and Manuel, the 'man full of wisdom' who built the Church of Aght'amar belonged to the laity.
  9. ^ Armen, Garbis (1987). "A Study in Proportions in Armenian Church Architecture" (PDF). The Armenian Review. 40 (2–158): 69.
  10. ^ Shepard, Jonathan (2003). "Marriages towards the Millennium". In Magdalino, Paul (ed.). Byzantinum in the Year 1000. p. 25. doi:10.1163/9789047404095_005.
  11. ^ Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes (2020). "Aristocrats, Mercenaries, Clergymen and Refugees: Deliberate and Forced Mobility of Armenians in the Early Medieval Mediterranean (6th to 11th Century a.d.)". Migration Histories of the Medieval Afroeurasian Transition Zone. Brill. p. 342. doi:10.1163/9789004425613_013. JSTOR 10.1163/j.ctv2gjwxf8.16.
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  13. ^ a b Thierry & Donabédian 1989.
  14. ^ Evans, J. A. S. (2000). The Age of Justinian։ The Circumstances of Imperial Power. Routledge. p. 217. ISBN 9780415237260.
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