Manuela Studer-Karlen, Michele Bacci, Natalia Chitishvili (eds) - Medieval Svaneti: Objects, Images, and Bodies in Dialogue with Built and Natural Spaces

Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 232 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:100 col., Language: English. ISBN 9788028003821. ¶ 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Michele Bacci & Ivan Foletti Svaneti and the Rhetoric of Distance Irine Elizbarashvili & Irene Giviashvili Architecture of the Upper Svaneti Salome Meladze Painted Chancel Screens in Upper Svaneti. The Evidence of Early Monuments Nina Chichinadze The Interactions of Images in Sacred Space. A Case Study: The Church of St Barbara in Khe, Upper Svaneti Marine Kenia The Image of the Virgin in the Medieval Painting of Svaneti Ekaterine Gedevanishvili Iprari Murals. Reading of the Scene of the Apparition of the Angel to Joshua Manuela Studer-Karlen Image and Liturgy. The Church of the Archangels in Tanghili Antony Eastmond Icons, Saints, and Society in Svaneti Nana Burchuladze Icons from Svaneti in the Context of Byzantine Paintings Nutsa Batiashvili & Nikoloz Aleksidze Symbolic Treasure, Care, and Materiality in Upper Svaneti.

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