The article deals with a little known ensemble of wall paintings at the
Church of the Saviour in Chvabiani, Upper Svaneti, Georgia. The initial
decoration of the church dated to 978- 1001 has survived mainly in the apse.
The badly preserved Theophany in the conch attracted the attention of
scholars who analyzed its iconography. The Apostles in the lower zone,
however, were considered to be repainted at a later date. Our examination of
these wall paintings revealed no traces of later additions. Through the
analysis of technique and style we aim to prove that the both compositions
belong to the turn of the tenth to eleventh century. These wall paintings
show unusually high quality and close affinities with Byzantine art of this
period. In our view, they could be a work of a visiting artist, probably a
Georgian trained at some major Byzantine artistic center. He may well have
been among the artists working on wall paintings at the cathedrals built and
decorated by order of kings and church hierarchs during the late tenth to
early eleventh centuries, in Tao-Klarjeti or other lands of the Georgian
kingdom still under formation.
Στη μελέτη παρουσιάζονται τα πρώτα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας που διεξάγεται για την αποκατάσταση του τοιχογραφικού διακόσμου της Αγίας Σοφίας Κιέβου, και επιχειρείται η ταύτιση των πολυάριθμων αγίων μέσω της εικονογραφίας τους και σε συνδυασμό με τα χαράγματα που εντοπίζονται στον χώρο. Συνεπώς, είναι σημαντικό να κατανοηθούν οι αρχές που υπαγόρευσαν την επιλογή και την κατανομή των αγίων στον χώρο. Διαπιστώνεται ότι, ενώ κάποιες από αυτές τις αρχές ακολουθούν την τρέχουσα βυζαντινή παράδοση, άλλες απηχούν ιδιάζουσες ιδέες για τους νεοφώτιστους Ρως.
This article describes comparative constructions of the synthetic-analytical type in the Yakut and Altai languages, in other words, comparisons formed by means of functional words-indicators. The material of the study was taken from the heroic epics of the Turkic peoples: the Yakut epic "Djuluruyar Nyurgun Bootur" by P.A. Oyunsky and the Altai epic "Maadai-Kara" by A.G. Kalkin. The comparative analysis of the Yakut and Altai comparative constructions revealed wordspostpositions unique for each language: курдук, дылы, кэриэтэ, саҕа, тэҥэ in the Yakut language, тӳҥей, кептӳ, кеберлӱ in the Altai language as well as the standards and objects of comparison in the heroic epics of the Yakut and Altai peoples.
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