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Georgian art historian
Rene Oskarovna Schmerling
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Born
| December 5, 1901
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Died
| February 18, 1967
Tbilisi, Georgia
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Other names
| Renee, Renee, Rene, Ren?; R. O.; ?merling, ?merlingi, Shmerling; Шмерлинг, Рене Оскаровна
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Rene Oskarovna Schmerling
(
Georgian
:
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; December 5, 1901 ? February 18, 1967) was a
Georgian
art historian
and
art critic
famous for her work on
medieval
and
Byzantine
Georgian art
.
Biography
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Born in
Tbilisi
,
Georgia
in 1901, Schmerling was the daughter of
painter
and
graphic artist
Oscar Schmerling
.
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She graduated from
Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
in 1929.
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Schmerling worked at the State Museum of Georgia.
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In 1941, she was one of the founders of the Institute of History of Georgian Art (today the
Giorgi Chubinashvili
National Centre for the Study of Georgian Art History and Monument Protection) at the
Georgian National Academy of Sciences
.
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She was a senior researcher there until her death in 1967.
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Her work concerned Georgian
paleography
, architecture,
ironworking
,
illuminated manuscripts
, and other medieval and Byzantine arts.
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[2]
She led expeditions to
Svaneti
and
Dagestan
to study the
early Christian architecture
of these regions in the 1950s.
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She trained many future scholars of Georgian art.
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She was also an art critic. At one of the first artistic exhibitions in Tbilisi after the loosening of
censorship
with the death of
Stalin
in 1953, she said, "I am glad that browns have left these walls and that true colors shine on them now."
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Her collection of
bookplates
(ex libris), which includes works by famous Georgian artists
Vladimir Grigolia
[
ka
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and Nikoloz Chernishkov (
ru
), was the subject of an exhibition in 2014.
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Selected publications
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- Samples of Decorative Decoration of Georgian Manuscripts (Obrazcy dekorativnogo ubranstva gruzinskich rukopisej: al'bom iz 32 tabljc),
Tbilisi: Gruzinskaja filial Akademii nauk SSSR, 1940.
- Georgian Architectural Ornaments (Gruzinskij architekturyj ornament)
, Tbilisi: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1954.
- Outskirts of Tbilisi: an Architectural Guide (Okrestnosti Tbilisi : architekturnyi putevoditel'),
Tbilisi: Izd. Akad. Nauk. Gruzinskoj SSR, 1960.
- Forms in the Architecture of Medieval Georgia (Малые формы в архитектуре средневековой Грузии., Malye formy v arkhitekture srednevekovo? Gruzii)
, Tbilisi: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk Gruzinsko? SSR, 1962.
- Illuminations of Books and Manuscripts (Chudo?estvennoe oformlenie gruzinskoj rukopisnoj knigi IX - XI vv)
Tbilisi: Met?s?niereba, 1967?1979.
- Sepulchral Tombs in Dagestan (Rez'ba po kamnju v Dagestane),
1966.
- Metechi Temple in Tbilisi (Chram Metechi v Tbilisi),
Tbilisi: Izd. Mezniereba, 1969.(published posthumously).
- Ot Tbilisi do Kavkavi
, Mec?niereba, 1991 (published posthumously).
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