Mamuka Tavakalashvili or Tavakarashvili ( ka, მამუკა თავაქალაშვილი) was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

and famous

calligrapher Calligraphy (from el, link=y, καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing. It is the design and execution of lettering with a pen, ink brush, or other writing instrument. Contemporary calligraphic practice can be defined as "t ...

of the 17th century at the court of the

King of Imereti The Kingdom of Imereti ( ka, იმერეთის სამეფო, tr) was a Georgian monarchy established in 1455 by a member of the house of Bagrationi when the Kingdom of Georgia was dissolved into rival kingdoms. Before that time, Im ...

. He was captured in Principality of Samegrelo in 1634 during the Georgian feudal fights when kings

Teimuraz I of Kakheti Teimuraz I ( ka, თეიმურაზ I) (1589–1663), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a Georgian monarch who ruled, with intermissions, as King of Kakheti from 1605 to 1648 and also of Kartli from 1625 to 1633. The eldest son of David I and ...

and

George III of Imereti George III ( ka, გიორგი III) (died 1639), of the Bagrationi Dynasty, was a king of Imereti from 1605 to 1639. Biography George was a natural half-brother of Rostom of Imereti on whose death he succeeded in 1605, but his authority was se ...

waged war against King

Rostom of Kartli Rostom or Rustam Khan ( ka, როსტომი or როსტომ ხანი) (1565 – 17 November 1658) was a Georgian royal, from the House of Bagrationi, who functioned as a Safavid-appointed vali (i.e. viceroy)/king of Kartli, ea ...

and the

Dadiani The House of Dadiani ( ka, დადიანი ), later known as the House of Dadiani- Chikovani, was a Georgian family of nobles, dukes and princes, and a ruling dynasty of the western Georgian province of Mingrelia. The House of Dadiani The ...

princes of Samegrelo. After this Mamuka worked as calligrapher at the court of Prince

Levan II Dadiani Levan II Dadiani (also Leon; ka, ლევან ��ეონII დადიანი; 1597-1657) was a member of the House of Dadiani and ruler of the Principality of Mingrelia in western Georgia. Levan grew up in Kakheti under his grandfathe ...

. In 1646 he copied

The Knight in the Panther's Skin ''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' ( ka, ვეფხისტყაოსანი, tr literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustav ...

where he created 39 miniatures. In 1647 Tavakalashvili also copied the Georgian translation of

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,00 ...

References

Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia The ''Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( ka, ქართული საბჭოთა ენციკლოპედია, ქსე) is the first universal encyclopedia in the Georgian language, printed in Tbilisi from 1965, the editor in chi ...

, ტ. 4, გვ. 562, თბ., 1979 *

Korneli Kekelidze Korneli Kekelidze ( ka, კორნელი კეკელიძე) (April 30, 1879 – June 7, 1962) was a Soviet and Georgian philologist, scholar of Georgian literature, and one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University where ...

, ქართული ლიტერატურის ისტორია, ტ. 2, თბ., 1958; *ამირანაშვილი შ., ქართული ხელოვნების ისტორია, თბ., 1971; *ბარამიძე ა., ნარკვევები ქართული ლიტერატურის ისტორიიდან, ტ. 2, თბ., 1940; *ბერიძე ვ., ძველი ქართველი ოსტატები, თბ., 1967; *კობიძე დ., სპარსული ლიტერატურა, ნაწ. 2, თბ., 1947; *ყუბანეიშვილი ს., ლიტერატურული და ხალხური ზააქიანი, „საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემიის მოამბე“, 1953, თ. 14, № 6; *შერვაშიძე ლ., „ვეფხისტყაოსნის“ 1646 წლის ხელნაწერის მინიატურების ავტორობის შესახებ, იქვე, 1955, ტ. 16, № 6; {{DEFAULTSORT:Tavakalashvili, Mamuka Calligraphers from Georgia (country) 17th-century people from Georgia (country) 17th-century poets from Georgia (country) Painters from Georgia (country) Manuscript illuminators Male poets from Georgia (country) 17th-century male writers