{"id":1350,"date":"2020-12-07T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T09:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/?post_type=painting&p=1350"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T15:12:55","slug":"telovani-murals-of-%d1%81hurch-of-the-holy-cross","status":"publish","type":"painting","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/painting\/telovani-murals-of-%d1%81hurch-of-the-holy-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Telovani, Murals of the \u0421hurch of Holy Cross. First Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Building:<\/strong><\/td>\nTelovani, Church of Holy Cross<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Layer of the Murals:<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst Layer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Period:<\/strong><\/td>\n8th c.<\/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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Inscription(s)<\/h4>\n

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

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

A single-line asomtavruli<\/em> inscription is represented above the halo of St. Andrew the Apostle depicted in the second registre of the chancel conch:<\/p>\n

\u10aa[- – – – -] <\/strong>[\u10ab\u10ad\u10a8]<\/strong>\u10c4\u10b1\u10a4\u10ac\u10a4\u10a7 <\/strong>\u2013 Commemorate L[- – – – -] <\/strong>(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), 20).<\/p>\n\n

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Description<\/h4>\n

The original painting decorated only the chancel; the painting is distributed in two registres.<\/p>\n

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Chancel<\/h6>\n

A three-figure composition of Christ in Majesty<\/em> is depicted in the conch. It shows enthroned Christ flanked by kneeling angels. Presently, the extant images are only fragmentary. A line of stylized floral ornament bordered on two sides runs around the edge of the conch. Compositions of the conch and the lower registre are separated with a coiled band-like ornament.<\/p>\n

In the second registre,<\/strong> on both sides of the window, the starry background represents a host of holy apostles and the face of the Savior encircled in a medallion depicted in the center (\u10bc<\/strong>(\u10ab\u10a8\u10a3\u10a0)<\/strong>\u10c2<\/strong> | [\u10ae\u10a8]<\/strong>\u10b0\u10a8<\/strong> \u10b6<\/strong>(<\/strong>\u10ab\u10b0<\/strong>)<\/strong>\u10a7<\/strong>[\u10a8\u10b1\u10a0] \u2013<\/strong> Holy Face of God. <\/strong>St. Peter, St. Andrew ([<\/strong>\u10bc<\/strong>(\u10ab\u10a8\u10a3\u10a0)<\/strong>\u10c2<\/strong>] <\/strong>| [-]|[-]|<\/strong>\u10a3<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10b0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10a8<\/strong>|[-] <\/strong>\u2013 Saint Andrew<\/strong>), presumably, St. James, St. Simeon are depicted right of the window. Due to the damaged layer of the painting, it is impossible to identify the fifth figure, while only small fragments have survived from the sixth one. Left of Christ\u2019s image is St. Paul ([<\/strong>\u10bc<\/strong>(\u10ab\u10a8\u10a3\u10a0)<\/strong>\u10c2<\/strong>]<\/strong> | <\/strong>\u10ae<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10a0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10a5<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10aa<\/strong>| [<\/strong>\u10a4<\/strong>] \u2013 <\/strong>Saint Paul<\/strong>) and St. Bartholomew ([<\/strong>\u10bc<\/strong>(\u10ab\u10a8\u10a3\u10a0)<\/strong>\u10c2<\/strong>]<\/strong> | <\/strong>\u10a1<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10a0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10b0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10a7<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10aa<\/strong>|<\/strong>[\u10ad]<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10ab<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u10a4<\/strong> \u2013<\/strong> Saint Bartholomew<\/strong>); only fragments have survived from the third and the fourth figures, while the fifth and the sixth ones are completely obliterated.<\/p>\n

The second registre is confined with a double red line from below. On the north and south walls of the apse below it there is a calvary cross mounted on a stepped pedestal and inscribed in a rectangular frame.<\/p>\n

The chancel window is left unpainted.<\/p>\n\n

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Bibliography<\/h4>\n

Tat\u2019jana Shevjakova, \u201cData rospisi pervogo sloja khrama Telovani\u201d [\u201cDate of the First Layer of Paintings in the Telovani Church\u201d], Sak\u2019art\u2019velos metsnierebat\u2019a akademiis moambe [Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences]<\/em> XXXIV, \u21161 (1964): 235\u201342.<\/p>\n

Tat\u2019jana Shevjakova, Monumental\u2019naja zhivopis\u2019 rannego srednevekov\u2019ja Gruzii [Monumental Painting of the Early Medieval Georgia]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1983), 6\u20137.<\/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).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3455,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"layer":[300],"period":[444],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/painting\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/painting"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/painting"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"layer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/layer?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}