The article uses William of Rubruck’s Itinerarium as a source of study on
the cultural heritage of 13th-century Armenia, focusing on its art-historical aspects.
Although much has been written about the ethnographic and literary-historical value
of the Flemish friar’s report, nothing has been said so far about his relations with the
Armenians he met during his wanderings through Asia, except in an ancillary way to
other topics. The analysis aims to enrich the fragmentary mosaic of knowledge about
the medieval Armenian world by adding a few more tiles, without renouncing to explore
the personality of the Franciscan who was its observer-witness.
