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Medieval Svaneti : objects, images, and bodies in dialogue with built and natural spaces / edited by Manuela Studer-Karlen, Michele Bacci & Natalia Chitishvili
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Convivium supplementum ; 2023/2Publisher: [Lausanne] : Université de Lausanne, 2023Publisher: [Prague] : Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2023Publisher: [Brno] : Masaryk University, 2023Description: 1 Online-RessourceISBN:- 9788028003838
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Summary: "The essays collected in this volume emphasize the importance of Svaneti, a historical region of the Georgian Great Caucasus as an unparalleled treasury of medieval arts, describe some of its outstanding monuments, provide interpretations of their political and religious role at the intersection of different cultural traditions, and explore the dynamics whereby they have constantly invested with new functions and associations throughout their long history."PPN: PPN: 1922678171Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Svaneti and the rhetoric of distance / Michele Bacci & Ivan Foletti -- Architecture of the Upper Svaneti / Irine Elizabarashvili & Irene Giviashvili -- Painted chancel screens in Upper Svaneti : the evidence from early monuments / Salome Meladze -- Interaction of images in sacred space : a case study : the Church of St Barbara in Khe, Upper Svaneti / Nina Chichinadze -- the image of the virgin in the medieval painting of Svaneti / Marine Kenia -- Iprari murals : reading of the scene of the apparition of the angel to Joshua / Ekaterine Gedevanishvili -- Image and liturgy : the Church of the Archangels in Tanghili / Manuela Studer-Karlen -- Icons, saints, and society in Svaneti / Antony Eastmond -- Icons from Svaneti in the context of Byzantine paintings / Nana Burchuladze -- Symbolic treasure, care, and materiality in Upper Svaneti.
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