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Opizari
( fl second half of the 12th century). Georgian goldsmiths and silversmiths. They were outstanding exponents of the traditional techniques of embossing and chasing in silver gilt (see GEORGIA, §V, 1(i)). They worked in a monastery at Opiza (Turk. Bagular) in the Georgian princedom of Tao-Klardjeti (now north-east Turkey), where Beka Opizari may have been Beshken Opizari’s pupil.
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