{"id":1364,"date":"2020-12-09T19:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/?post_type=painting&p=1364"},"modified":"2022-01-11T05:36:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T05:36:26","slug":"ipkhi-murals-of-church-of-st-george-firs-layer","status":"publish","type":"painting","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/painting\/ipkhi-murals-of-church-of-st-george-firs-layer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipkhi, Murals of Church of St. George. First Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Building:<\/strong><\/td>\nIpkhi, Church of St. George (\u201cJgrag\u201d)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Layer of the Murals:<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst Layer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Period:<\/strong><\/td>\n10th 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
of the Painter(s)<\/h6>\n
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Description<\/h4>\n

The interior and the chancel screen are fully decorated with murals; the badly sooted painting was cleaned in 2019 and the images became clearer.<\/p>\n

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Chancel<\/h6>\n

The composition of the Deesis <\/em>is distributed asymmetrically in two registres in the narrow and tall chancel apse. The figure of enthroned Christ occupies the conch, while the Virgin and St. John the Baptist, and two archangels are depicted lower, on different levels on two sides of the window. Enthroned Christ is represented with the right hand raised in blessing and an open codex. Full-length figures of the Virgin and St. John the Baptist are represented immediately next to the chancel window, north and south of it with their hands raised towards the Savior in supplication. The edges of the registres have figures of saint archangels whose waving wings reach the conch.<\/p>\n

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Chancel Screen<\/h6>\n

The entablement of the three-span chancel screen is decorated with a large floral ornament which also runs along the triumphal arch of the chancel.<\/p>\n

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Aisle<\/h6>\n

The whole area of the west wall<\/strong> is dedicated to the multifigure scene of the Ascension<\/em>. The upper part shows two angels raising Christ into heaven; images of the apostles on the level of the second registreare hardly discernable.<\/p>\n

There are heraldic representations of the holy riders \u2013 St. George and St. Theodore \u2013 killing Diocletian and a dragon, respectively – on the southern panel<\/strong> of the vault (in the first registre). The lower registre of the south wall is occupied by church fathers. Around the window and the door saint bishops are distributed as follows: one full-length figure is depicted on the area between the wall and the window in the eastern section, while half-length figures of three saints are depicted on a small area.<\/p>\n

An expanded composition of the Nativity of Jesus Christ <\/em>is laid out on the northern panel<\/strong> of the vault (the first registre). The second registreis totally dedicated to the multifigure scene of the Dormition.<\/em> The registres are marked off by a narrow red band.<\/p>\n\n

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Bibliography<\/h4>\n

Tatiana Sheviakova, \u201cSop. Ipkhis (zemo svanet\u2019i) makhloblad mdebare ts\u2019minda giorgis (jgrag) eklesiis mkhatvrobis tarighis sakit\u2019khisat\u2019vis\u201d [\u201cConcerning the Dating of the Murals in the Saint George (Jgrag) Church near the Ipkhi Village (Upper Svanet\u2019i)\u201d], Sak\u2019art\u2019velos metsnierebat\u2019a akademiis moambe [Bulletin of the Georgian Academy of Sciences] <\/em>XXX, \u21166 (1963): 829\u201336.<\/p>\n

Nicole Thierry, \u201cNotes d\u2019un second voyage en Haunte\u2013Svan\u00e9tie (G\u00e9orgie)\u201d, Bedi Kartlisa<\/em> XXXVIII (1980): 58\u201360, 79\u201382.<\/p>\n

Natela Aladashvili, Gajane Alibegashvili, Aneli Volskaja, ZhivopisnajasShkola Svaneti [The Painting School of Svaneti]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1983), 23\u20137.<\/p>\n

Tat\u2019jana Shevjakova, Monumental\u2019naja zhivopis\u2019 rannego srednevekov\u2019ja Gruzii [The Monumental Painting of the Early Medieval Georgia]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1983), 20\u20132, pl. 72\u201380.<\/p>\n

Natela Aladashvili, \u201cKompozitcia altarnoj konkhi v tserkvakh svanet\u2019i\u201d [\u201cChancel Conch Compositions in the Svaneti Churches\u201d], IV Mezhdunarodnij simpozium po gruzinskomu iskusstvu [IV International Symposium on Georgian Art]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1983), 5\u20137.<\/p>\n

Rusudan Q\u2019enia, Nat\u2019ela Aladashvili, Zemo Svanet\u2019i (shua saukuneebis khelovneba). Gzamkvlevi [Medieval Art of Upper Svaneti: A Guidebook] Sak\u2019art\u2019velos megzuri (Guide of Georgia) 2]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 2000), 86\u20137.<\/p>\n

Marine Q\u2019enia, \u201cAdreul k\u2019art\u2019ul mokhatuloba\u2019ta programebis t\u2019aviseburebat\u2019a gamo\u201d [\u201cOn the Pecularities of Programmes in Early Georgian Murals\u201d], Sak\u2019art\u2019velos Sidzveleni [Georgian Antiquities]<\/em> 11 (2007): 54\u20135.<\/p>\n

Marine Q\u2019enia, \u201cMkhatvrobis saert\u2019o sistemis gadats\u2019q\u2019vetis t\u2019aviseburebani adreuli khanis Svanet\u2019is mokhatulobebshi\u201d [\u201cPecularities of the General Arrangement of the Decoration System in Early Medieval Murals in Svaneti\u201d], Sak\u2019art\u2019velos Sidzveleni [Georgian Antiquities]<\/em> 12 (2008): 131\u20134.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3428,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"layer":[300],"period":[446],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/painting\/1364"}],"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\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"layer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/layer?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}