The Department of Icon Painting, and Restoration of Easel and Monumental Icon Painting works on developing the core content of the discipline, providing students with fundamental theoretical knowledge in both theology and icon painting, which in turn includes the restoration of easel and monumental icons. The department offers students the opportunity to study modern technologies in icon painting restoration and apply them in practice. In general, students’ participation in the restoration of wall-paintings is one of the important components of the educational program.
Head of the Department of Iconography, and Restoration Easel and Monumental Iconography
Artist-Restorer of the
Highest Category - Merab Buchukuri
13/40 Sioni St., Tbilisi
0105, Georgia
Tel: (+995 32) 2 18 16
81
Email:
m.buchukuri@academia.edu.ge
Website:
www.tsas.ge
Assistant
Zaza
Sumbadze
13/40 Sioni St., Tbilisi
0105, Georgia
Tel: (+995 32) 2 18 16
81
Email:
z.sumbadze@academia.edu.ge
Website: www.tsas.ge
The academic focus areas of the Department of Iconography, and Restoration of Easel and Monumental Iconography include: Palaeography, Special Technology, Iconography, Fundamentals of Architecture, Monumental Icon Restoration, Encaustics, Chemistry of Icon Painting, Organic Chemistry, Biology, Stone Restoration, and Pencil and Paint Techniques.