International Conference “History of Georgian Art: Tradition and Perspectives”
dedicated to the 140th Anniversary of Academician Giorgi Chubinashvili
The founder of the Georgian art historian school and the Institute of the History of Georgian Art

Organizing Committee:
Nino Chichinadze
Ekaterine Karselishvili
Mariam Gabashvili
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Duration of Presentation – 20 min.

December 10
Opening Session 1 - 10.00 – 13.00
Conference hall

Chair – Mariam Gachechiladze

Giorgi Khoshtaria – Reminiscences
Samson Lejava - Certain Aspects of Giorgi Chubinashvili’s Conceptual Thought.
Zaza Skhirtladze - Art History at Tbilisi State University. The Early Years.
Jan Zacharias - Against Strzygowski? Chubinashvili, The Vienna School and the Making of
Georgian Art in German-Speaking Art History.

Opening of the exhibition

Coffee break

Section I – Medieval Art
Session 2 - 15:00 – 18.30 (Online via Zoom)
Conference hall
Chair – Nino Chichinadze

Ekaterine Karselishvili - Preliminary Observations on the Fragment of Decoration Discovered in
the Oshki Monastery.
Erga Shneurson - The Open Door of Heaven: the Unprecedented of Ubisi's Vault Mandorla
Paintings.
Manuela Studer-Karlen - The Chapel of Vamek Dadiani in Khobi: New Considerations.
Barbara Schellewald - Reflections on appearances in the dome in Georgian mural painting.
Antony Eastmond - The Dadianis and Their Enamels.

Discussion

December 10
Section II – Contemporary Art
Session 2 - 14:00 – 18.00
Room #4
Chair – Samson Lezhava

Ekaterine Gachechiladze - The Work of Gori’s Chief Architect (1949–1956), Mikheil
Gachechiladze, in Gori and its Surroundings.
Tamar Amashukeli - Morphological and Architectural Transformation of the Territory of the
Tbilisi Institute of Parasitology.
Tatia Gvineria - Late Soviet Modernist Architecture as Discourse and Cultural Practice.
Maia Mania - Neoclassical architecture in Tbilisi of the 1830s.
Ekaterine Kvachatadze - Contemporary Ecclesiastical Stone Relief Sculpture in Georgia.

Discussion

December 11
Section I – Medieval Art
Session 1 - 10.00 – 13.30
Conference hall
Chair – Natia Natsvlishvili

Paata Bukhrashvili - On the existence of pre-Christian cult architectural tradition in Georgia.
Akaki Skhvitaridze - The Method of Proportional Analysis for the Study of Early Medieval
Georgian Architecture.
Tamta Dolidze – Preliminary Observations on the Architecture and Construction Phases of the
Basilica at Zeda Tmogvi.
Nodar Aronishidze - The Arakhveti Architectural Complex within the Context of Vernacular
Residential Architecture of Mtiuleti.
Lisa Marzahn - Forms and Meanings of Artificial Darkness and Light in a Georgian Medieval
Sacred Space: The typikon of the Bachkovo Monastery and its Lighting Instructions.

Discussion

Book Presentation: Nina Chichinadze “The True Cross Reliquaries of Medieval Georgia”
Coffee break
Session 2 - 14:30 – 18.00
Conference hall
Chair – Ekaterine Kvachatadze

Kitty Machabeli - Sassanian Models and Early Christian Georgian Plastic Art.
Mariam Gvelesiani - A Silver Belt from Burial N24 at Vani: Iconography and Cultural Context.
Nino Chichinadze - The Icon of the Virgin of Iviron Monastery within the Monastic Landscape.
Nana Burchuladze - On the 17th Century Georgian Ecclesiastical Painting.
Nino Chikhladze - On the Iconographic Features of the Early 17th-Century Murals of
Shemokmedi’s “Zarzma”.

Discussion

December 11

Section 2 – Contemporary Art
Session 1 - 10.00 – 13.00
Room #4
Chair - Sopio Chitorelidze

Ketevan Asatiani - On a Matter Related to the Restitution of Treasure from Russia to Georgia in
the 1920s.
Tamar Belashvili - Determining the Author of Alexander Griboyedov's Grave Monument.
Temur Kantaria-Jabadari - On the Artistic Form of Political Sculpture Erected in Soviet Georgia.
Liana Antelava - The Work of Elene Akhvlediani through the Lens of Griselda Pollock’s
Feminist Art History.
Mariam Loria - Irakli Parjiani’s Metaphysical Landscape: Interpretative Method and “Image as a
Form of Thought”.

Discussion

Coffee break

Session 2 - 14.00 – 18.00
Room #4
Chair - Mariam Gabashvili

Irine Chachanidze - Issues of the Reform of the Georgian Alphabetical Typeface in Dimitri
Shevardnadze's Work.
Rostom Khachakhidze - Collaborative Relations Between the Calligraphic Schools of Tbilisi in
the 18th Century.
Irine Abesadze - For Understanding the Significance of the Cultural Heritage of the First
Georgian Professional Artist Giorgi (Grigol) Maisuradze.
Mariam Mikadze - Vera Paghava’s Abstract Opuses as a Language of Transcendent Experience.
Sopio Chitorelidze - The Work of Nodar Aptsiauri - Form, Media, and Artistic Vision.

Discussion

December 12
Section I – Medieval Art
Session 1 - 10.00 – 14.00
Conference hall
Chair – Manon Liluashvili

Ekaterine Gedevanishvili - David Narini Icon of St. George of Ilori.
Ketevan Digmelashvili - The House in Khada — Innovation or Another Example of Traditional
Dwelling?
Nino Kobauri – Tualivi - Royal Palaces of the Bagrationi Dynasty.
George Kalandia - Unknown Inscriptions from Samegrelo.
Maia Pataridze - An Iconographic Study of a 12th-Century Georgian Coin.

Section II – Contemporary Art
Session 1 - 10.00 – 14.00
Chair – Nino Chincharauli

Rusudan Dolidze - Modernist Trends in Lado Gudiashvili’s Oeuvre (1910–1920).
Tsisia Kiladze - Perception of Space in Painting – European Scholars and David Kakabadze.
Tamar Dvalishvili - S-4980; H-511 — The Divine Liturgies of Basil the Great and John
Chrysostom Conservation of Medieval Parchment Scrolls (12th–16th Centuries).
Gvantsa Potskhishvili, Nutsa Papiashvili - Challenges of Preserving Wall Paintings and
Decorative Elements of Mosques in Samtskhe-Javakheti and Upper Adjara Regions.
Ana Cheishvili - Serge Lifar's ballet Shota Rustaveli: A Cultural Project or a Strategy for the
Choreographer's Rehabilitation (Online via Zoom).

Discussion

Closing of the conference