Naghash Hovnatan

 ( 1661 Births ) 

Naghash Hovnatan (; 1661, Shorot, Nakhijevan, Safavid Iran – 1722, Shorot) was an Armenians poet, Ashik, Painting, and founder of the Hovnatanian artistic family. He is considered the founder of the new Armenian minstrel school, following lyric poetry.

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Biography 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 Ashik. In 1710 he moved to Tbilisi, where, in addition to being a painter, he also became a court ashugh.

(2013). 9780299296537, University of Wisconsin Press. . ISBN 9780299296537

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 language.

In 1983, a collection of his poems in Armenian was published in Yerevan.

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See also

• Armenian literature
• Music of Armenia
• Hovnatanian

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Categories: 1661 Births, 1722 Deaths, Armenian Musicians, Armenian Painters, Armenian Male Poets, 17th-century Armenian Poets, 17th-century Armenian Writers, 18th-century Armenian Poets, 18th-century Armenian Writers, People From Nakhchivan, Persian Armenians, 17th-century Writers From Safavid Iran, 18th-century Writers From Safavid Iran

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