Crimson & Violet & White

Violet (deep, vivid — the characteristic deep vivid violet of the most important Georgian medieval church fresco — the specific deep vivid violet-to-indigo of the most elaborately preserved Byzantine-influenced fresco pigments in the most important Georgian medieval churches: the cave city of Vardzia, the Alaverdi Cathedral, and the Gelati Monastery — the most specifically Georgian and the most immediately Caucasian Christian sacred color) and White (pure, luminous — the pure luminous white of the Georgian limestone — the most characteristic and the most extensively used building stone in the most important traditional Georgian architecture — the specific brilliant white of the most finely carved and the most precisely shaped Caucasian limestone that forms the most immediately beautiful facades and the most intricately carved window surrounds of the most important Old Tbilisi buildings) create the most specifically Georgian and the most immediately Caucasian sacred-natural cool-neutral pair. Against Crimson's passionate Georgian pomegranate warm, this creates the most specifically Georgian Tbilisi old town palette.

The palette is the visual world of Georgian Tbilisi — the most immediately culturally specific and the most comprehensively historically layered of all the Caucasian capital cities (Tbilisi — from Georgian: თბილისი — the most immediately etymologically specific: 'warm springs' — referring to the most specifically sulfuric hot springs that gave the city its name — founded according to the most immediately famous Georgian legend by King Vakhtang I Gorgasali in the 5th century CE — the most comprehensively historically layered and the most immediately culturally specific of the three South Caucasian capitals).