Decorating Medieval Architecture - New Book about Multicultural Impacts on Georgian Art

Authors Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger and Nina Iamanidze, both art historians, are also editors of the new published book:

Artists and Craftsmen on the Road
Georgian Medieval Architectural Sculpture in Interaction with Byzantine, Persian, Seljuk and Armenian Art

which was made by the german publishing house Anton H. Konrad Verlag.
The new international publication examines the different elements of decoration at Georgian Architecture in medieval age - on religious buildings. In the focus are angels and saints, vaults and arcades with perforated and/or carved decoration, the use of color can be seen as well. During the times an extraordinary exchange of artists and craftsmen took place, which resulted in rich decoration knowledge brought and used on the teritory of Georgia.

Ten contributions of experts handle the versatile aspects of the art historical development on the base of an international colloquium held at the Ruhr-University Bochum in November 2022.

About the editors
Art Historian Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger is professor at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, specialized in Byzantine, Osman and Seljuk Art and Architecture.
Art Historian Nina Iamanidze, professor for Byzantine Art History at Sorbonne University in France, has focus on Byzantine Iconography and Georgian Art and Architecture.

About the book
Neslihan Asutay-Effenberger & Nina Iamanidze
Artists and Craftmen on the Road
Georgian Medieval Architectural Sculpture in Interaction with Byzantine, Persian, Seljuk and Armenian Art
2024, 147p., with 218 illus.
21x29,7cm, in english language
Hardcover, 49.80 Euro
ISBN 978-3-87437-630-3

https://www.konrad-verlag.de/neuerscheinungen/titel/artists-and-craftsmen-on-the-road.html

The book is available in the publisher's bookshop or via libri and zeitfracht.

Dr. Christoph Konrad
Anton H. Konrad Verlag
Schulstr. 5
89264 Weißenhorn
0049-160-6490973

presse@konrad-verlag.de
www.konrad-verlag.de

For over 60 years the publishing house Anton H. Konrad Verlag, a family-run company in the south of Germany, has been dedicated to art history in southern Germany as well as the regional history of numerous districts and towns in Swabia and Bavaria.
Architecture and monument preservation is represented, among others things, in the Berlin Series.
The program is enriched by old graphics and historical maps, as well as biographies about theologians, clergy and contemporary witnesses. The history of philosophy as well as literature on the Baltics, poems and prose in Swabian dialect or dialect round off the publishing program.
The publisher supports all authors and editors in personal contact and editorial work. Proofreading and typesetting are handled in-house and in a professional manner.

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