Irina Koshoridze

 Irina Koshoridze got her degrees from Tbilisi State University at the Faculty of History, Department of Art History and theory. She has been working at Shalva Amiranashvili Museum of Fine Arts as a curator, scientific secretor, head of department and a senior curator. She is the author of many publications, such as: About the Two Royal Palaces in Georgia and Armenia of 18^thc.-Journal of Persianish studies. NY 2008 (Forthcoming, winter);  Visual images of Persian -Georgian Cultural relations at the turn of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centurie-International seminar Qajar Art-Provenance, Sources and Influences, Islamic art week in the Georgian National Museum, June 5-12, 2005, Tbilisi, pp.41-50; and many others.