John the Evangelist
Artist - Grigor Tatevatsi, 1378
Gospel, 1297

Plates 6 - 9. Portraits of the Evangelists.
A specific type of iconography of the evangelists was adopted in Syuniq of the XIV - XV centuries, especially in Gladzor and later in Tatev as well as in a group of manuscripts related to those centers. Of the above-mentioned centers, this type appeared in Gladzor manuscripts of the end of the XIII and beginning of the XIV centuries. Similar evangelists may be found in the miniatures of Grigor Tatevatsi (plate 6, plate 7, plate 8, plate 9), and later in the works of the Anonymous Painter of Syuniq (plate 23, plate 24, plate 25, plate 26). Grigor Tatevatsi and the Anonymous Painter of Syuniq were persons of bright individuality, thus each of their works is not simply a copy of the other, but an artistic embodiment of the model.