Murals of Ertso Sioni Church. First Layer

Building:	Ertso Sioni Church
Layer of the Murals:	First Layer
Date/Period:	8th-9th cc.
Donor(s):	Unknown
Painter(s):	Unknown

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of the Painter(s)

Description

At some stage of history, the chancel and the walls of the hall were covered with plaster which has deeply engraved horizontal and vertical lines intersecting each other; they form a cruciform decorative network and as though repeat the pattern of masonry.

Bibliography

Rene Shmerlingi, “Sakart’velos udzveles p’reskul mokhatulobat’a dat’arighebis sakit’khisat’vis”, [“Concerning the Dating of the Earliest Fresco Decorations in Georgia”], Kart’uli khelovnebis istoriis institutis VIII sametsniero sesia. mokhsenebat’a t’ezisebi [Abstracts of the 8th Session of the Institute of Georgian Art History] (Tbilisi, 1954), 10–1.

Tatjana Shevjakova, “K voprosu o vozniknovenii I kharaktere freskovjkh rospisej v Gruzii VIII–IX vv.” [“Concerning the Origins and Character of the Fresco Decorations in 8th-9th-Century Georgia”], Sakart’velos metsnierebat’a akademiis sazogadoebriv metsnierebat’a ganq’op’ilebis matsne [Bulletin of the Section of the Social Sciences of the Georgian Academy of Sciences] 1 (1962): 258.

Zaza Skhirtladze, “Sakart’veloshi anikonur mokhatulobat’a arsebobis problemisat’vis” [“Towards the Issue of the Aniconic Decorations in Georgia”], khelovnebat’mtsodneoba [Studies in Art History] 6 (2005): 198–9.