Join the Georgia Museum of Art for a lecture by Parker Curator of Russian Art and Professor of Art History Asen Kirin, in conjunction with the exhibition One Heart, One Way: The Journey of a Princely Art Collection. From Russia to Finland to London to Massachusetts and now to Athens, Georgia, the Belosselsky-Belozersky Collection has traveled the world. The exhibition (on view at the Georgia Museum of Art through January 6, 2019) introduces the public to this collection from the family of the Russian Princes Belosselsky-Belozersky, which still belongs to its original owners.

Kirin original trained in Sofia and at Moscow University, studying Slavonic philology with a concentration on Cyrillic epigraphy. He holds an MA from Vanderbilt and a PhD from Princeton University. Kirin have received two fellowships from Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University. He teaches courses in Late Antique, Byzantine and Russian art and architecture. His early publications dealt with Post-Byzantine frescoes and their inscriptions and with late antique architecture and urbanism. Kirin has written on the interplay of late Byzantine architecture, mural painting and natural landscape. His research into the changing perceptions of Byzantine art, as well as the different ways in which Europeans and Americans engage the ancient and medieval cultural heritage, led to initiate and curate two exhibitions focusing on the history of art collecting. The first of them was Sacred Art, Secular Context: Objects of Art from the Byzantine Collection of Dumbarton Oaks (Georgia Museum of Art 2005); the second Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796) (Georgia Museum of Art, September 22, 2013 to January 5, 2014; Hillwood Estate, February 14 to June 8, 2014).