On the issue of the Georgian Renaissance

• Giorgi Sibashvili

The concept of the Renaissance or revival refers to the era of cultural upsurge in Europe in the 15th-16th centuries, the ideological content of which is humanism. It means the revival of the ancient understanding of worldly reality. The influence of Christian-religious values ​​​​of the Middle Ages is also important in it. According to the prominent English scholar Howard Turner, Muslim artists and scientists, craftsmen and princes together created a unique culture that directly and indirectly influenced all continents. The Islamic Renaissance, which Muslim scholars refer to as the “Golden Age of Islam,” spread widely not only in countries that followed the Islamic religion, but also throughout the world, especially in Asian-African countries, and, in their opinion, made a considerable contribution to the development of science, philosophy, art, and the revival in general, or the world’s Renaissance culture. A typical example of the Eastern Renaissance is the Georgian Renaissance. According to Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgians absorbed the samples of Hellenic creativity and learned from that life-giving Hellenism, the deep and thorough study of which gave rise to the so-called “Renaissance” in Western Europe. Georgia began this movement already in the 12th century, but its completion was hindered by the Mongol-Tatar invasion. The development of the Renaissance theory began in the second half of the 1930s with Shalva Nutsubidze's recognition of the Byzantine Renaissance.

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