Dr. Kitty Machabeli (კიწი მაჩაბელი), Senior Research Fellow at the G. Chubinashvili National Research Center for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation, Professor Emerita at the Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. She graduated from Tbilisi State University, Faculty of History. She is the author of 23 books and more than two hundred papers on various problems of late antique, medieval, East Christian, and modern Georgian art. Her research laid the foundation for an art historical study of late antique silversmiths in Georgia. Her publications on early medieval Georgian sculpture fostered our knowledge in this field. She holds several honors, including the G. Chubinashvili award (2010), the Georgian Artists Union award for the Best Publication of the Year (1982), and Georgian Academy of Sciences Certificate of Excellence in Scholarship (2016)
