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Tell me about yourself, Toros Roslin about the deeds of his life he has lived on ...
 - I'm an artist.
 - People say to you favored the king and Catholicos, you have been well received in their mansions, attended their festivities ...
 - I'm an artist.
 - You better master of Cilicia, known in many countries, you have tasted the joy of great recognition.
 - Artist, painter ... I


 Seven manuscripts - this is where to look for genuine Roslin. Six of the Gospels (in which he Toros Roslin) and one book of canons, rites and ceremonies, called "Mashtots" in honor of its originator Mashtots Er vardetsi, Catholicos, who lived in the ninth century. In this book, the artist calls himself simply by name. But it certainly Toros Roslin - his style ...


  Like other artists kilikiyskim he likes blue. The blue band columns, blue ornaments, blue raincoats and seat, blue rivers of the sea and the sky bright blue ...


 Courage of thought - that's what first struck in the art of Toros Roslin. He is one of the first introduces the Cilician art multi-figured compositions. Scenes of living, shaped, made from life itself. In the biblical story interpritatsii he departs from the canon.
 Skill kilikiytsa growing. If in his early works he had several Bravura, parade - ringing patterns Horani, Pestryaev multicolored peacock, bright, reflective blue chapel, - then in the "Mashtots and painted after the Gospel in 1268 his painting takes on the intimacy and tranquility. In pictures kilikiytsa aorazhaet sense of form, the salience of the object. In search of her, he approaches the transfer of light and shadow, simulates the lighter colors, sometimes bright specks of light, tends to the three-dimensionality in the transfer of space ...
 Roslyn - Artist eternal quest.


 Courage thoughts, greed, creativity, elegance, consistency in work, dissatisfaction reached, the constant improvement, hard work, in krvskah its tension and drama inherent in Armenian life. Valuable combination - the sophistication and drama.
 It turns on Roslin know are not so little!

  Nourish Catholicos Constantine largely helped Roslyn.
 Roslin calls him a great patron of the arts and bibliophile. The fact that he generously gave money for the production of manuscripts, written with gratitude and other artists ....

  Toros Roslin was extremely bright creative person, his art was largely overstepped his time, and it was he took the first steps Predrenessansa.

  In Yerevan at the entrance to Matadadaran, lined up six stone sculptures. This is the future of the statue erected best sons of Armenia. One of them depicts a man whose keen eyes were fixed to a wide asphalt avenue, tuffaceous quarters, beautiful buildings in the Armenian capital. Toros Roslin is concerned, just as in the days when immersed in thought, slowly walked to the beautiful town squares Cilicia.

  
 To quote from the book T. Zurabyan "Toros Roslin" in 1978


 The second photo work Minas Avetisyan. The Birth of Toros Roslin.