Manuela Studer-Karlen, Ivan Foletti, Adrien Palladino, et. al., eds. Georgia as a Bridge between Cultures: Dynamics of Artistic Exchanges. Convivium Supplementum (CONVISUP 6). Brepols, 2021. 

From the Introduction

For some years, the Chair of Medieval Art History at the University of Fribourg has taken a growing research interest in Georgia’s role as an important agent in the wider network of cross-cultural exchange in the Middle Ages. This is documented by Prof. Michele Bacci in his introduction to the collective volume Cultural Interactions in Medieval Georgia  which, as of 2018, was the first to address this issue in print. It is a first step in re-evaluating Georgian material with an updated methodological framework. It is crucial to stress that these research projects always benefit from intensive partnerships which have already been honored, and which will only be mentioned in passing here. The long-standing, intense collaboration with the George Chubinashvili National Research Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation in Tbilisi is particularly evident in our book, wherein four members of this Centre present their current research. Other permanent, productive collaborations have been established with the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max-Planck-Institut) in Florence and with the Centre for Early Medieval Studies at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, as evidenced by the contributions to this book. The present volume of the Convivium series edited under the auspices of the Brno Centre completes the circle of these partnerships.