Georgia. Paese d'oro e di fede. Identità e alterità nella storia di un popolo Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2016. Publisher's page English abstract |
This volume is the catalogue of an exhibition presented in Rimini on the occasion of the "Meeting for Friendship among Peoples" (19-25 August 2016). Although remote and difficult to access, the Georgian territory , located in the European second highest mountain range, was one of the first to open to Christianity, already in the fourth century AD. This gave rise to an amazing flowering of art and architecture. The exhibition presented such extraordinary wealth, showing in detail the uniqueness of this tradition. In its relative geographical isolation, Georgia managed to develop themes and styles of its own, with a surprising realism that is admirably balanced, both in the frescoes and in the icons, with the hieratic spirituality of art known to us mainly thanks to the Byzantine world. Contemporary Georgia draws on this long tradition, thus becoming able to find new life in the deep roots of its identity that not even the Soviet period was able to eradicate. |