Helen C. Evans is an

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art historian and curator specializing in

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. Evans has worked for the

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since 1991 and was co-curator along with William D. Wixom of its 1997 exhibition, ''The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era''. She became a scholar devoted to the documentation of Byzantine art because according to her, "Byzantine art is underrepresented because Byzantine history slowly disappeared from the way we look at the world. The empire ended at roughly the same moment that

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found the New World. When we do an exhibition like ''Interwoven Globe'' at the Met, it starts at 1500 and we don't look at the fact that

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was on one of the great trade routes of the previous millennium and a half—or several millennia in fact. Until Columbus, you did not reach the spices of the orient; you did not reach the silks of China, without crossing the Eastern Mediterranean. ...When most academic scholarship really begins, Byzantium has been subsumed in the

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." In 2018, she curated the exhibition "

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!". In 2019 Helen C. Evans was awarded by Friendship Order by the president of Armenia for representing the Armenian Culture to the World in a distinguished way, as well as for the significant contribution to the strengthening and development of the Armenian-American friendly relations.Helen C. Evans was awarded by the Order of Friendship
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Publications

* ''The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261'', editor and contributor with William D. Wixom, New York, 1997 * ''Trésors du monastère de Sainte-Catherine mont Sinaï, Egypte: édigé à l'occasion de l'exposition présentée à laFondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Suisse, 5 octobre au 12 décembre 2004'', editor, Martigny 2004 * ''Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt: A Photographic Essay'', editor and contributor, New York, 2004 * ''Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557),'' editor and contributor, New York, 2004 * ''Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, 7th-9th Century'', editor and contributor with Brandie Ratliff, New York, 2012

References

External links

The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261
online version of 1997 catalog and reference work
2018 book award

2014 book award

September 2016
interview of Evans as expert in Armenian art, and Mary Carruthers as authority on medieval literature & rhetoric, by Richard Schneider, professor in Hermeneutics and Liturgical Art at

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