{"id":1058,"date":"2026-02-06T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.gch-centre.ge\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:39:49","slug":"machabeli-kitty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.gch-centre.ge\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/machabeli-kitty\/","title":{"rendered":"Machabeli Kitty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Art Historian, Chief Researcher of the Centre, Prof. Dr.<\/span><\/p>

Research field:<\/strong> History of the Late Antique and Early Christian plastic art, genesis of the Georgian Christian art, Georgian metalwork, Christian iconography,\u00a0<\/span>modern Georgian fine arts.<\/span><\/p>

Activity:<\/strong> Full Professor of Tbilisi Academy of\u00a0 Arts,\u00a0 lectures on history of Ancient World Art, Faculty of Restoration,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Art History and Theory,\u00a0\u00a01999-2006\u00a0\u00a0Head of the Department of Minor Arts of G. Chubinashvili Institute of History of Georgian Art.<\/span><\/p>

Address:<\/strong> I corp., app. 56, Mitskevich str., Tbilisi. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

e-mail:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>kmachabeli@yahoo.fr<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>

  1. Armaziskhevi Silver Bowl with Antinous Representation, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N6, 1962;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  2. Two Silver Bowls from Armaxi, \u201cMoambe\u201d, N3, 1962;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  3. Les medallions italiens provenants de Georgia, Arte Lombarda, X, 1, 1965;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  4. Irakli Ochiauri Chasing Work, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N3, 1967;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  5. Ashot Kukhi Relief from Tbeti, \u201cMatsne\u201d, N5, 1968;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  6. Some Issues of the Study of Artistic Silver in Late-Antique Georgia, \u201cMatsne\u201d, N4, 1969;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  7. Silver Jugs from Armazi, \u201cDzeglis Megobari\u201d, N17, 1969;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  8. Silver Phials from Armazi, Tbilisi, 1970;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  9. Irakli Ochiauri, Moscow, 1971;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  10. A Silver Patera from Armaziskhevi, \u201cDzeglis Megobari\u201d, N26, 1972;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  11. A Silver Tray from Ureki, \u201cDzeglis Megobari\u201d, N29, 1972;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  12. A Group of Monuments of Sassanian Toreutics in Georgia, \u201cMatsne\u201d, N3, 1972;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  13. Georgian Applied Art, collected articles: Georgian Fine Arts, Tbilisi, 1974;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  14. Alde Kakabadze, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N10, 1974;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  15. Guram Gabashvili, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N4, 1975;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  16. A Portrait of Marcus Aurelius from Bagineti, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N7, 1975;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  17. Silver Utensil Details from Ureki, \u201cDzeglis Megobari\u201d, N38, 1975;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  18. Metal-work Art in Ancient Georgia, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N3, 1976;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  19. Late-Antique Toreutics in Georgia, Tbilisi, 1976;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  20. An Artist-Ceramist Revaz Iashvili, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N7, 1976;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  21. La toreutique g\u00e9orgienne de la fin de l\u2019antiquit\u00e9, Bedi Kartlisa, XXXIV, 1976;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  22. Tradition in Georgian Medieval Chasing, II International Symposium dedicated to Georgian Art, Tbilisi, 1977;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  23. From the History of Georgian Secular Chasing Art, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N10, 1977;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  24. Basic Problems of Late-Antique Art of Georgia, Antiquity and Antique Traditions in the Culture and Art of the Peoples of the Soviet East, Moscow, 1978;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  25. On Georgian Secular Chasing Art, Medieval Art, Russia, Georgia, Moscow, 1978;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  26. An Issue of Traditions in the Medieval Georgian Chasing Art, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N3, 1979;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  27. A Sassanian Jug from Svaneti, Ars Georgica, 8, 1980;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  28. Some Peculiarities of Early Medieval Georgian Plastic Arts, Researches in Georgian Fine Arts, Tbilisi, 1981;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  29. Alde Kakabadze, Moscow, 1981;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  30. Tbilisi- Mtskheta, Moscow, 1981 (together with N. Janberidze);<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  31. From Svaneti Treasury, Tbilisi, 1982;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  32. Some Iconographic Schemes of Early Christian Plastic Arts of Georgia, IV International Symposium dedicated to Georgian Art, Tbilisi, 1983;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  33. Silver of Ancient Georgia, Tbilisi, 1983;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  34. From the History of Ancient Georgia Metal Sculpture, collected articles of Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, 1983;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  35. At the Origins of Ancient Georgian Plastic Arts (an Usaneti Stele), \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N10, 1984;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  36. Soliko Virsaladze, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N11, 1984;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  37. A Statue and a Town, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N3, 1986;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  38. An Early Feudal Epoch Monument of Georgian Plastic Arts, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, N10, 1986;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  39. The Issue of Oriental Elements in the Early Medieval Plastic Arts of Georgia, \u201cKhudozhestvennie Pamyatniki i Problemi Vostoka\u201d, Leningrad, 1986;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  40. Pictorial Art of the Soviet Georgia, Tbilisi, 1987;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  41. Some Peculiarities of the Development of Early Christian Georgian Plastic Arts, Ars Georgica, 9, 1987;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  42. A Stone Cross Depiction on the Ancient Georgian Relief, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, 1, 1988;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  43. A Stele Fragment from the Village of Nagvarevi, \u201cMatsne\u201d, N2, 1988;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  44. Davati Stele Place in the System of Medieval Georgian Art, \u201cSabchota Khelovneba\u201d, 3, 1989;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  45. The Theme of the Blessed Virgin in the Early Christian Plastic Arts of Georgia, VI International Symposium dedicated to Georgian Art, Tbilisi, 1989;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  46. Une sculpture g\u00e9orgienne pal\u00e9ochretienne: la stele du village de Matula. Revue des etudes caucasiennes et caucasiennes, Paris, N3, 1989;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  47. Zur Erforschung der fr\u00fchchristlichen georgischen Stelen, Georgica, Heft 12, Jena-Tbilisi, 1989;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  48. Byzantium and Georgian Art, \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, N9, 1990;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  49. A Secular Portrait in Early Feudal Georgia, \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, N2, 1991;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  50. Bronze Censers in Georgia, \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, N6, 1991;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  51. Les sujets \u00e9vangeliquessur les steles g\u00e9orgiennes, Byzance et G\u00e9orgie, Ath\u00e9nes, 1991;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  52. A Stele Fragment from the Village of Satskhenisi, Ars Georgica, 10, Tbilisi, 1992;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  53. Il sistema figurative delle stele georgiane gel primo medievo, Ex Oriente Lux, Bruxelles, vol. 1, 1992;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  54. Ancient Christian Symbolism in Medieval Georgian Reliefs (a cross in the Medallion), \u201cLiteratura da Khelovneba\u201d, 6, 1992;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  55. For an Unbiassed Research. About One Attempt of Defining a Sculpture workshop in Early Feudal Epoch Georgia, \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, 9-10, 1992;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  56. Christian Themes in Ancient Georgian Plastic Arts (a Brdadzori Stone Column), \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, 2, 1993;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  57. From the History of an Early Medieval Secular Portrait, \u201cLiteratura da Khelovneba\u201d, 1, 1993;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  58. Ancient Christian Symbolism on Georgian Stone Columns, \u201cSpektri\u201d, N1-2, 1993;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  59. Boris Tsibadze, \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, N1-3, 1994;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  60. Louis R\u00e9au \u201cMedieval Religious Art\u201d, \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, N4-5, 1995;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  61. The Gospel Themes on Georgian Stone Columns, \u201cDzeglis Megobari\u201d, N2, 1996;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  62. La G\u00e9orgie et le monde de Byzance (Vie-VIIe ss.), materials of Tbilisi State University International Symposium, Tbilisi, 1996;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  63. Reliefs on Georgain Stelae within the System of Early Byzantine Arts, Byzantine Studies. Selected Papers, Art History, vol. 3, Moscow, 1996;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  64. St\u00e9les G\u00e9orgiennes en Pierre, Lugano, 1997;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  65. Ein Werk der europaischen Kleinkunst in Swanetien, Georgica, Heft 20, Yena, 1997;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  66. Georgian Stone Crosses, Tbilisi, 1998;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  67. A Portrait in Early Medieval Georgian Plastic Arts (5-6th cc), \u201cLiteratura da Khelovneba\u201d, 4, 1998;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  68. Early Medieval Stelae in Georgia in the Context of Eastern Christian Art, Iberica Caucasica, I, Curzon Press, 1998;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  69. From the History of Georgian Chased Icons, \u201cKhelovneba\u201d, N5-6, 1999;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  70. Biblical Themes in Early Medieval Georgian Plastic Arts, papers of a scientific conference dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, 1999;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  71. Remarques sur I iconographie de la Crucifixion sur les steles g\u00e9orgiennes. Byzantion, LXX, Bruxelles, 2000;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  72. Some Aspects of Georgian Chased Icons, \u201cSametsniero Shromebis Krebuli\u201d of Tbilisi State University, 2000;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  73. Signs of Belief, \u201cMnatobi\u201d, N1-2, 2000;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  74. Georgia and Byzantine World, researches of the Georgian State Museum, 6, Tbilisi, 2001;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  75. A Stele detail from the Village of Satskhenisi, Monuments of Culture, \u201cNovie Otkritiya\u201d, Moscow, 2001;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  76. Georgia and Byzantine World. Artistic Aspects. Perception of Byzantium and Its Neighbors, New York, 2001;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  77. Masterpieces and Centuries, Tbilisi, 2001;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  78. Study of Decorative-Applied Arts at the G. Chubinashvili Institute of Georgian Art History, \u201cKartuli Khelovnebis Narkvevebi\u201d, I, Tbilisi, 2001;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  79. An Icon of the Blessed Virgin on Early Christian Georgian Stone Columns, Ars Georgica, 11, 2001;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  80. Manaba Mahomedova, an introduction to an album, Makhachkala, 2002;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  81. New Materials for the History of a Georgian Costume, \u201cMnatobi\u201d, N5-6, 2002;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  82. Georgia and the Eastern Christian World, \u201cKartuli Khelovnebis Narkvevebi\u201d, II, 2002;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  83. The Blessed Virgin \u2013 a Minor Oranta in Georgian Chasing \u201cSakartvelos Sidzveleni\u201d, N4-5, Tbilisi, 2003;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  84. Les croix en Pierre g\u00e9orgiennes et leur place dans l\u2019art du Haut Moyen Age, \u039b\u0391\u039c\u03a0\u0389\u0394\u038f\u039d, t. 2, Ateni, 2003;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  85. About One Version of the Blessed Virgin \u2013 Hodegetria in Georgian Chasing Art, \u201cKartuli Khelovnebis Narkvevebi\u201d, III, Tbilisi, 2004;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  86. The Oldest Liturgical Objects in Georgia \u2013 Bronze Censers, Logos, III, 2004;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  87. For the Genesis of Georgian Christian Art, \u201cTwenty Centuries of Christianity in Georgia\u201d, 2004;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  88. About One Image of the Blessed Virgin in Georgian Chasing Art, Zograf, N30, 2004-05;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  89. G. Chubinashvili and the Issues of Origins of Georgian Chasing Art, \u201cKartuli Khelovnebis Narkvevebi\u201d, IV, 2005;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  90. The Issue of Formation of Christian Iconography (Christmas and Epiphany Compositions on Early Medieval Georgian Reliefs), \u201cSakartvelos Sidzveleni\u201d, 9, 2006;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  91. Depiction of the Holy Sepulcher on the Monument of Early Medieval Georgian Art, Monuments of Culture New Discoveries Moscow Nauka, Moscow, 2006;<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  92. Georgian Christian Art. Stone Reliefs, Tbilisi, 2008 (co-author);<\/span><\/strong><\/li>
  93. Early Medieval Georgian Stone Crosses, Tbilisi, 2008.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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