{"id":1409,"date":"2020-12-10T14:23:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/?post_type=painting&p=1409"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:22:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T11:22:15","slug":"uraveli-agara-monastery-murals-of-the-church-of-st-john-the-baptist","status":"publish","type":"painting","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/painting\/uraveli-agara-monastery-murals-of-the-church-of-st-john-the-baptist\/","title":{"rendered":"Uraveli, Agara Monastery, Murals of the Church of St. John the Baptist"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Building:<\/strong><\/td>\nUraveli, Agara Monastery, Church of St. John the Baptist<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Layer of the Murals:<\/strong><\/td>\nOne 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\n
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Description<\/h4>\n

The fragments of plastering have survived on actually all the walls of the interior of the main church; however, frescos adorned only the chancel apse. The painting got sooted and damaged over centuries.<\/p>\n

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Chancel<\/h6>\n

Nothing has remained from the painting of the chancel conch.<\/p>\n

Below the conch a row of niches – a total of eight – runs along the whole perimeter of the chancel; among them, in the center of the apse, is a small-size one with a high seat. Painting in the niches has been preserved fragmentarily. A half-figure of a saint martyr was depicted in the conch of each niche, and below – two figures of angels and prophets. The images are accompanied by asomtavruli<\/em> inscriptions outlined in black paint; on the northern section of the chancel, in the conch of the second niche from the window St. Cyprian is depicted (\u10bc(\u10ab\u10a8\u10a3\u10a0)\u10c2<\/strong> \u10a9\u10c3<\/strong>(<\/strong>\u10a8<\/strong>)<\/strong>\u10ae\u10b0<\/strong>(<\/strong>\u10a8<\/strong>)<\/strong>|\u10a0<\/strong>(<\/strong>\u10ac<\/strong>)<\/strong>\u10a4 || \u10ab\u10b6\u10a3\u10a4\u10aa|\u10ab\u10ad\u10bc\u10a0\u10ab\u10a4 <\/strong>\u2013 Bishop-Martyr<\/strong> Saint Cyprian<\/strong>) with a closed book in the left hand. In the third niche one can read: [\u10a9\u10aa\u10a4]\u10ab\u10a4\u10ac\u10b2\u10ad\u10b1 <\/strong>\u2013 Klementos; <\/strong>in the fourth niche \u2013 <\/strong>\u10ab\u10a0\u10b2\u10a7\u10a4 <\/strong>\u2013 Matthews<\/strong>. Among the saints there are images of three crowned holy mothers of which two, according to iconographical features, could be St. Catherine and St. Barbara.<\/p>\n\n

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Bibliography<\/h4>\n

Giorgi Boch\u2019oridze, Mogzauroba samtskhe-javakhet\u2019shi [Journey to Samtskhe-Javakhet\u2019i]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 1992).<\/p>\n

Asmat\u2019 Ok\u2019ropiridze, \u201cUravlis agaris monastris mt\u2019avari tadzris mokhatuloba\u201d [\u201cMurals in the Main Church of Uraveli Agara Monastery\u201d], in Valeri Asatiani ed., Akhaltsikhisa da tao-klarjet\u2019is epark\u2019ia [Diocese of Akhaltsikhe and Tao-Klarjeti]<\/em> (Tbilisi, 2013), 558\u201361.<\/p>\n

Asmat\u2019 Ok\u2019ropiridze, \u201cAgaris monasteri. mkhatvroba\u201d [\u201cAgara Monastery. Murals\u201d], Sak\u2019art\u2019velos mart\u2019lmadidebeli eklesia. entsiklopedia [Georgian Orthodox Church. An Encyclopedia]<\/em> I: 43\u20135.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3463,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":[],"layer":[298],"period":[446],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/painting\/1409"}],"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\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"layer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/layer?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"period","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.tsu.ge\/murals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/period?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}