Under-dome transitions in the churches of the Bagratid era, 9th–11th centuries Authors Armen Kazaryan National Research Moscow State University of Civil Engineering Downloads PDF (Русский) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/86.2694 Keywords: Armenian architecture, Eastern Christian church, under- dome transition, pendentives, squinches, squinch-pendentive transition Abstract The article traces the preferences of the architects of Ani and the regions of the Christian East closest to the Armenian Bagratid kingdom in relation to the choice of the type of under-dome transition, as well as the ability of the craftsmen to interpret their forms in a variety of ways, which were generally established in the Armenian architecture of the 7th century. Using examples of outstanding works of the epoch, the transitions of three types and intermediate variants are consistently analyzed. How to Cite Kazaryan, A. (2025). Under-dome transitions in the churches of the Bagratid era, 9th–11th centuries. Project Baikal, 22(86). https://doi.org/10.51461/issn.2309-3072/86.2694 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Published 2025-12-09 Issue No. 86 (2025): diversity Section refereed articles - heritage License Copyright (c) 2025 Армен Казарян This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. References Chubinashvili, G. N. (1970). Arkhitekturnye pamyatniki v VIII i IX vv. v Ksanskom uschel’e [Arhitectural monuments of the 8th and 9th centuries in the Ksani gorge]. In Voprosy istorii iskusstva [Questions of History of Art] (Vol. 1). Tbilisi: Khelovneba. Kazaryan, A. (2007). Kupol’nye glavy armyanskikh i gruzinskikh tserkvey VII v.: osobennosti i napravleniya pazvitiya [Domed heads of Armenian and Georgian churches of the 7th century: Features and directions of development]. Academia. Architecture and Construction, 2, 36–41. Kazaryan, A. (2012). Trompovo-parusniy podkupol’nyy perekhod. Proiskhozhdenie i evolyutsiya v sisteme kupul’nykh glav. [Squinchpandative transition. Origin and evolution in the system of the domed heads]. Architectural Heritage, 57, 8-24. Kazaryan, A. (2015). The Architecture of Hoṙomos Monastery. In E. Vardanyan (Ed.), Hoṙomos Monastery: Art and History (pp. 55–205). Paris: ACHCByz. Kazaryan, A. (2018). Novye dannye o kupolakh khramov Ani. Chast’ pervaya. Kafedral’nyy sobor zodchego Trdata [New data on the cupolas of Ani’s churches. Part first. The cathedral by an architect Trdat]. Questions of the History of World Architecture, 10, 145–169. Kazaryan, A. (2025). Kupola khramov aniyskoy arkhitekturnoy shkoly epokhi Bagratidov: tipologiya i genesis form [Domed churches of the Ani architectural school of the Bagratid era: Typology and origin of the shapes]. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art, 15 (in print). Mnatsakanyan, S. Kh. (1960). Haykakan tcartarapetutyan Syuniki dprotse [Syunik school of Armenian architecture]. Yerevan: Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences Publ. Tokarskiy, N. M. (1946). Arkhitektura Armenii IV–XIV vv. [Architecture of Armenia, 4th–14th centuries]. Yerevan: Armgosizdat. Tokarskiy, N. M. (1973). Po stranitsam istorii armyanskoy arkhitektury [Through the pages of the history of Armenian architecture]. Yerevan: Hayastan.