This is a joint project of the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation, the Max – Planck – Institute of Art in Florence and Basel University.
A joint project of the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation and the Max – Planck – Institute of Art in Florence was held in Tbilisi, on September 9-13, 2009. In the framework of the project students and undergraduates of art history faculty of Tbilisi State University and the Academy of Art were given a course of lectures on new methodologies and approaches to analysis and application in this sphere.
Leading experts from European universities – Gerhard Wolf, Barbara Shelevaldi, Annet Hoffmann, Beate Böckem, Manuela De Giorgi, Bernd Nicolai, Kathrin Müller, Vera Beyer (from Basel, Bern, Heidelberg and Berlin universities) took part in the work of the seminar. During the course several expeditions were organized to Mtskheta, Ateni and Kintsvisi where students gave short reports prepared in advance. In the framework of this project it is intended to send Georgian students to art history research centres in Europe.
The George Chubinashvili Centre and the Max – Planck – Institute have a long history of friendship – George Chubinashvili was a student of the founder of the Max – Planck – Institute August Shmarzo.
Since 2006 international seminars dedicated to the medieval Georgian art have been organized with the support of Georgian Ministry of Culture. Since 2008 a still library depicting medieval Georgian art has been working at Florence Institute. Exhibited material gives foreign researchers the opportunity to get acquainted with the best samples of Georgian art.