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11 Cards in this Set
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Trdat the Architect
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The consructor of the Mother Cathedral of Ani
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Toros Roslin
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The greatest of medieval Armenian manuscript painters, working in the heyday of the Cilician Kingdom of Armenia
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St. Mesrob Mashdots
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First a soldier, then a priest and scribe in the royal court, the founder of Armenian Alphabet, with Catholicos St. Sahag
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Sayat-Nova
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Musician, poet, sang and played the kamanche, he performed in the court Heraclius of Georgia
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Alan Hovhaness
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A prolific 20th Century American composer, pioneer of East-West fusion, mixing Armenian and other Eastern themes into his music
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Hovhannes Aivazovsky
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Painter, he is best known for his seascapes, 'The sea is my life,' he wrote
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Arshile Gorky
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Vostanik Manoog Adoyan, painter, a genocide survivor
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Martiros Saryan
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Painter (20 century), captured the rich earthen colors of the Armenian landscape under the powerful Armenian sun
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Aram Khachaturian
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Armenian classical composer. His best known works are Spartak (Spartacus) and Gayane, the latter featuring the now ubiquitous Sabre Dance
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Mikayel Nalbandian
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A writer and national leader, his advocacy on behalf of the Armenian people led to his arrest and imprisonment in St. Petersburg by the Tsarist government in 1862
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Gomidas Vartabed
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Churchman, musician, (Soghomon Soghomonian). His polyphonic rendering of the Armenian Divine Liturgy is one of the two basic settings in use in Armenian churches world-wide
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