Georgia as a Bridge between Cultures

Introduction:
Manuela Studer-Karlen, Georgia as a Bridge between Cultures: Dynamics of Artistic Exchange

(introduction to A. Palladino’s translation of H. Belting) – Ivan Foletti, Belting from Belting. From Moscow to Constantinople, and to Georgia

(translation of H. Belting’s article) Adrien Palladino, The Painter Manuel Eugenikos from Constantinople in Georgia, translated from Hans Belting 

Articles:

Ekaterine Gedevanishvili, The Khakhuli Dome Decoration

Irene Giviashvili, Liturgy and Architecture: Constantinopolitan Rite and Changes in the Architectural Planning of Georgian Churches

Nato Chitishvili, Altars in Medieval Georgian Churches: Preliminary Notes on their Arrangement, Decoration, and the Rite of Consecration

Thomas Kaffenberger, Liminal Spaces of Memory, Devotion, and Feasting? Porch-Chapels in Eleventh-Century Georgia

Manuela Studer-Karlen, The Monastery of the Transfiguration in Zarzma: At the Intersection of Biblical Narration and Liturgical Relevance

Irma Mamasakhlisi, The Theme of the Last Judgment in Medieval Georgian Art (Tenth–Thirteenth Centuries)