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Djurić 1961b

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Case Study Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška

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Vojislav J. Djurić, Jedna slikarska radionica u Srbiji 13. veka. Bogorodica Ljeviška-Nikoljača-Morača, in: Starinar 12 (1961) 63-76

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Places (2)
Name Class Begin End Description
Prizren, Church of the Mother of God of Ljeviša Place The Church of the Mother of God of Ljeviša (Virgin Eleousa) is dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God. It is situated in the city of Prizren and was built by King Milutin 1307-1313 on the ground of an earlier three-nave basilica, probably from the 9th or the 10th century (at the latest). Its is said that St. Sava visited Prizern at the beginning of the 13th century, when the first Serbia bishop of the city was ordained. It was the first restoration of the edifice as evidences by the inscriptions on the frescoes in the South aisle dated in 1220. In the 14th century the edifice was remodeled and turned into a building with five domes, three-partite apses which are semicircular on the inside and three-sided on the outside and an exonarthex with two floors and a bell-tower. According to the inscription on the exonarthex we know that the reconstruction of the Church was managed by masters Nikola (architecture) and Michael Astrapas (painting). The Church was fresco-painted in the 13th century and later in the 14th by the hand of Michael Astrapas and his assistants. In 1346, after the proclamation of the Serbian Patriarchate this Church was elevated to the rank of metropolitanate. In the 15th century Prizren was occupied by the Turks. In the 18th century it was turned into a mosque. In 2006 the Church was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of an ensemble of medieval monuments in Kosovo.
Studenica Monastery, Church of St. Nicholas Place The Church of St. Nicholas is situated next to the monastery's katholikon in the Studenica Monastery. It was built at the end of the 12th century (Gsnd XIV 215), probably simultaneously with the Church of the Holy Mother of God or King Radoslav's narthex at the latest. The ground plan shows a single nave edifice with a semicircular apse. It was built with stone and tufa. Some fragments of fresco paintings have survived and are dated to the 1230s (until the middle of the 13th century the latest). It bears certain similarities with frescoes of the Church of the Virgin Ljeviška in Prizren.