{"id":1390,"date":"2020-12-04T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T14:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/?post_type=painting&p=1390"},"modified":"2022-01-11T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T07:37:34","slug":"murkmeli-murals-of-church-of-savior","status":"publish","type":"painting","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/painting\/murkmeli-murals-of-church-of-savior\/","title":{"rendered":"Murq’meli, Murals of the Church of Savior"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Building:<\/strong><\/td>\nMurq'meli, Church of Savior (\"Matskhvar\")<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Layer of the Murals:<\/strong><\/td>\nOne Layer<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Period:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe second half of 11th century<\/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\n
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Description<\/h4>\n

The interior of the church must have been fully painted. Presently only fragments of the painting have been preserved.<\/p>\n

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Chancel<\/h6>\n

In the conch the painting is almost completely obliterated. A young, beardless, frontal figure with lowered left hand and presumably holding an object in his right hand can be observed on the western intrados of the chancel arch. Apparently, it is a figure of an angel\/archangel.<\/p>\n

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Aisle<\/h6>\n

The west corner of the south<\/strong> wall<\/strong> of the hall represents the Descent into Hell<\/em>; only fragments of the Savior\u2019s body and two crowned figures on His right (west), presumably, holy prophets David and Solomon, have survived.<\/p>\n

Painting on the north<\/strong> wall<\/strong> is completely obliterated. Only a fragment of a saint\u2019s face has survived on the western area of the vault.<\/p>\n

On the<\/strong> west<\/strong> wall<\/strong> the painting is distributed in two registres which are separated from each other by a folded ornament; in the first registre the three-figured scene of the Ascension<\/em> is depicted above the window. There are two compositions in the lower registre. They are not separated with a registre line and are almost merged. The Crucifixion <\/em>(\u10bf\u10a5<\/strong>(<\/strong>\u10a0<\/strong>)<\/strong>\u10b0\u10ba[\u10ab\u10a0\u10c2] <\/strong>\u2013 Crucifixion<\/strong>) is depicted on the southern section; on the right (north) of crucified Christ is a female figure holding a jug and collecting Christ\u2019s blood and water \u2013 it is a symbolic representation of the church. Next to her is the Virgin. On the left (south) of Christ\u2019s figure is St. John the Baptist, presumably, with bread in his hand; a Roman soldier can also be observed behind the Apostle.<\/p>\n

The Nativity<\/em> is depicted in the northern part of the second registre (\u10ac\u10a0\u10a7\u10aa<\/strong>(\u10a8)<\/strong>\u10b1\u10a0||\u10b6\u10a4\u10a1\u10a0\u10c2 | \u10c2<\/strong>(\u10a4\u10b1)<\/strong>\u10b3 \u10b5<\/strong>(\u10b0\u10a8\u10b1\u10b2)<\/strong>\u10a4\u10b1\u10c2<\/strong> \u2013 Baptism of Jesus Christ<\/strong>). The dove \u2013 the Holy Spirit – descending from the sky has communion bread in its beak.<\/p>\n\n

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Bibliography<\/h4>\n

Ek\u2019vt\u2019ime Taq\u2019aishvili, Ark\u2019eologiuri ekspeditsia lechkhum-svanet\u2019shi 1910 tsels<\/em> (Parizi, 1937), 158\u20139; Reprinted in id., Tkhzulebani [Collected Studies] <\/em>2 (Tbilisi, 2017), 156.<\/p>\n

Ekaterine Privalova, \u201cMurq\u2019melis \u2018matskhvaris\u2019 mokhatuloba ushgulshi\u201d [\u201cPaintings of the Murq\u2019meli Church of Saviour in Ushguli\u201d], Dzeglis megobari [Monument\u2019s Friend]<\/em> 29 (1972): 31\u20139.<\/p>\n

Natela Aladashvili, Gajane Alibegashvili, Aneli Volskaja, Zhivopisnaja shkola Svaneti [The Painting School of Svaneti]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1983), 23\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), 43.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3442,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"layer":[298],"period":[446],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/painting\/1390"}],"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\/5"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"layer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/layer?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}