Shalva Amiranashvili

Amiranashvili was born in the small mountainous Georgian town of Oni (then part of the Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire) in a local teacher's family.

He was placed in charge of the Department of History and Theory of Arts at the TSU in 1925 and earned a degree of professor in 1936.

In 1945, he was sent by the Soviet government to Paris to oversee the repatriation of the Georgian antiquities evacuated to France following the 1921 Bolshevik takeover of Georgia.

[2] Shalva Amiranashvili published over 100 titles on a wide range of topics from the history of Georgian arts.

His best-known monographs deal with the pieces of medieval Georgian visual arts, such as illuminated manuscript miniatures, cloisonne, and frescoes.