Royal Imagery in Medieval GeorgiaPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... rulers , of which little is known outside the former Soviet Union . This book is the first of its kind to examine the ... ruler were very carefully designed to impress different audiences , allowing for the coexistence of contradictory ...
... rulers , of which little is known outside the former Soviet Union . This book is the first of its kind to examine the ... ruler were very carefully designed to impress different audiences , allowing for the coexistence of contradictory ...
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... rulers of Georgia in Caucasia . It covers the period of the rise of the Bagrat'ioni dynasty from rulers of the minor ... ruler behind the propagandist façade of his or her image . My approach is to give the surviving visual evidence far ...
... rulers of Georgia in Caucasia . It covers the period of the rise of the Bagrat'ioni dynasty from rulers of the minor ... ruler behind the propagandist façade of his or her image . My approach is to give the surviving visual evidence far ...
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... rulers , and they provide new ways to define and explain the nature of the rulers ' power . Analyses of the im- ages that ignore their context pass by much of their meaning . By placing much greater weight on visual evidence , this book ...
... rulers , and they provide new ways to define and explain the nature of the rulers ' power . Analyses of the im- ages that ignore their context pass by much of their meaning . By placing much greater weight on visual evidence , this book ...
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... ruler as well as reveal the im- mediate concerns and developments to which the rulers ' images had to adapt . The monumental art could be directly related to specific times and therefore had to ad- dress the specific concerns of those ...
... ruler as well as reveal the im- mediate concerns and developments to which the rulers ' images had to adapt . The monumental art could be directly related to specific times and therefore had to ad- dress the specific concerns of those ...
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... rulers . Their greatest kings , Mirian ( who converted Georgia to Christianity ) and Vaxtang Gorgasali , are occasionally referred to as model rulers in the chronicles , but otherwise it seems that the Bagrat'ionis wished to look ...
... rulers . Their greatest kings , Mirian ( who converted Georgia to Christianity ) and Vaxtang Gorgasali , are occasionally referred to as model rulers in the chronicles , but otherwise it seems that the Bagrat'ionis wished to look ...
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Page xix - N. Thierry, Le souverain dans les programmes d'églises en Cappadoce et en Géorgie du X' au XIII' siècle, dans Revue des études géorgiennes et caucasiennes, 4, 1988, p.