Ruben Atoyan — a painter, miniaturist, PhD in cartography science who dedicated life for the creation of extraordinary panoramic maps.
For years Ruben Atoyan explored cartography, history and culture looking for a fusion between science and art.This research led him to a turning point in his life — at the age of 33 Dr. Ruben Atoyan created his first cartography based artwork and for more than 3 decades continues to draw patiently small roads for us to travel around the world.
The artist works in original engineering techniques from the XVII century: manually, ink and watercolor. The special attention is given to general decoration of panoramas, where elements are stylised to antique maps.
Unrepeatable style makes Atoyan Ruben one of a kind. In the collection of the artist there are more than 100 hand drawn artworks in a scales 1:0 – 1:600,000
I was born in 1954 in Vanadzor, Armenia. In 1976 I graduated from the Moscow University of Geodesy, Airphotography and Cartography. I was
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