{"id":1182,"date":"2020-12-02T14:29:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/?post_type=painting&p=1182"},"modified":"2022-01-10T06:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T06:10:58","slug":"armazi-murals-of-st-george-church","status":"publish","type":"painting","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/painting\/armazi-murals-of-st-george-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Armazi, Murals of the Church of St. George"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Building:<\/strong><\/td>\nArmazi, Church of St. George<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Layer of the Murals:<\/strong><\/td>\nOne Layer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Period:<\/strong><\/td>\n864<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Donor(s):<\/strong><\/td>\nUnknown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Painter(s):<\/strong><\/td>\nUnknown<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Inscriptions<\/h4>\n

of the Donor(s)<\/h6>\n
of the Painter(s)<\/h6>\n\n
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Description<\/h4>\n

Certain sections of the interior were embellished with aniconic decoration, only minor fragments of which have survived.<\/p>\n

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Chancel<\/h6>\n

Painting of the chancel is utterly destroyed. Minor remnants of plaster have survived in the lower part of the northern slope of the conch, above the relief capital; it does not bear any trace of painting.<\/p>\n

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Chancel Screen<\/h6>\n

The five-span chancel screen of the church is painted too: bust portrayals of three beardless youths are represented on the architrave of the five-span chancel screen of the church. There are different opinions about identification of these depictions: it is presumed that these must be warrior saints, Holy Trinity, or a biblical composition \u2013 Three Youths in Fiery Furnace.<\/p>\n

The relief arches of the chancel screen have wide red lines and rows of dots; crosses that are slightly elongated vertically, and equal-armed ones with flared ends set in a rectangular framing are depicted on the lower tiles. The facets of hexagonal pillars are covered in red and white paint alternately. The capitals are decorated with the same colors.<\/p>\n

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Aisle<\/h6>\n

Some of the sections of the aisle had been decorated with colors \u2013 south<\/strong>, north<\/strong> and west<\/strong> walls<\/strong> were ornamented with alteration of red and yellowish-white rectangular spots; facets of the sub<\/strong>–dome<\/strong> supports are painted alternately red and white, while red paint was poured in the grooves of pumpkin-shaped capitals and above them, in the notches of the sub-dome constructions.<\/p>\n\n

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Bibliography<\/h4>\n

Rene Shmerlingi, \u201cSakart\u2019velos udzveles p\u2019reskul mokhatulobat\u2019a dat\u2019arighebis sakit\u2019khisat\u2019vis\u201d, [\u201cConcerning the Dating of the Earliest Fresco Decorations in Georgia\u201d], Kart\u2019uli khelovnebis istoriis institutis VIII sametsniero sesia. mokhsenebat\u2019a t\u2019ezisebi [Abstracts of the Eighth Session of the Institute of Georgian Art History]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1954), 11.<\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9 Shmerling, Malye formy v arkhitekture srednevekovoj Gruzii<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1962), 244\u20136.<\/p>\n

Tatjana Shevjakova, \u201cK voprosu o vozniknovenii i kharaktere freskovjkh rospisej v Gruzii VIII\u2013IX vv.\u201d [\u201cConcerning the Origins and Character of the Fresco Decorations in 8th-9th-Century Georgia\u201d], sakart\u2019velos metsnierebat\u2019a akademiis sazogadoebriv metsnierebat\u2019a ganq\u2019op\u2019ilebis matsne [Bulletin of the Section of the Social Sciences of the Georgian Academy of Sciences]<\/em> 1 (1962): 257.<\/p>\n

Rusudan Mepisashvili, Vakhtang Tcintcadze, Arkhitektura nagoronoj chasti istoricheskoj provintcii Gruzii \u2013 Shida Kartli [The Architecture of the Mountainous Part of the Historical Province of Georgia \u2013 Shida Kartli]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1975), 20\u20131.<\/p>\n

Tat\u2019jana Shevjakova, Monumental\u2019naja zhivopis\u2019 rannego srednevekov\u2019ja Gruzii [The Monumental Painting of the Early Medieval Georgia]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1983), 7\u20138.<\/p>\n

Zaza Skhirtladze, Adreuli shua saukuneebis kart\u2019uli kedlis mkhatvroba. T\u2019elovanis jvarpatiosani [Early Medieval Georgian Monumental Painting. Telovani Church of the Holy Cross]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 2008), 102\u20133.<\/p>\n

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