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| ID | 124129 |
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| System Class | Bibliography |
| Bibliography | Article |
| Case Study | Beyond East and West: Sacred Landscapes Duklja and Raška |
Description
Dragan Vojvodić, Žiča i Peć. Prilog razmatranju sličnosti dva programa zidnog slikarstva, in: Saopštenja 43 (2011) 31-47.
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Places (3)
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| Peć, Church of the Holy Apostles (The Patriarchate of Peć) | Place | The Church of the Holy Apostles is situated in the city of Peć. It was built by Archbishop Arsenije I in the middle of the 13th century (even though an inscription on one of the frescoes from the 14th century states that St. Sava initiated the construction). In time, as other buildings erected next to this Church, its shape changed so the original appearance of the Holy Apostles cannot be reliably reconstructed. The Church belongs to the Raška style and was a seat of Archbishopric (after it was moved from the Žiča Monastery) and later raised to the rank of Patriarchate (1346-1766). The Church was built on the grounds of an older three nave basilica which was reconstructed and modified to a single nave edifice with a dome and an apse with proskomidia and diakonikon. Side naves became chapels. Nave was elongated and suitable for liturgical purposes. Along its Western part there were once chapels (paracclesions) which were demolished in the 14th century. Today it is a space of rectangular base with a semicircular vault. Similar solutions are to found in Pridvorica and Davidovica. Along the South wall of the central bay is a sarcophagus which once housed the remains of Archbishop Arsenije I. Another sarcophagus in the South-West corner of the Church kept the relics of Joanikije II, the first patriarch of the Patriarchate in Peć. The tomb of Archbishop Sava II is located between these two sarcophagi, also placed along the South wall. The Church was fresco decorated in the 13th century. Western part of the Church was decorated in the time of King Milutin, marking the beginning of a new style, that of the 14th century. | ||
| Peć, the Patriarchate | Place | The Patriarchate of Peć is situated in the city of Peć in Kosovo. It was built in the 13th and 14th centuries by Serbian Archbishops, starting Archbishop Arsenije Sremac, St. Sava's successor on the throne of Serbian Church. It consists of three Churches dedicated to the Holy Apostles, Saint Demetrius and Virgin Hodeghetria. The narthex was added by Archbishop Danilo II around 1330 and served as an ante-Church to the three adjecent temples. Some frescoes of the narthex have remained; they were mostly restored in the 16th century (after the renewal of the Patriarchate). | ||
| Žiča Monastery, Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ | Place | The Church of the Ascension of Jesus Christ in the Žiča Monastery is situated 32km from Vrnjačka Banja and near the city of Kraljevo. It was built by the Serbian King Stefan Prvovenčani (reigned 1196-1227) and his brother Saint Sava (ca. 1175-1236) in 1207 and was finished of 20 May 1221, on the feast of Ascension when the Great Council was held (Teodosije 139-141). It was the see of the Serbian Orthodox Archbishopric since 1219 and a place of coronation of the Serbian Kings (after Stefan had received the royal wreath from Pope Honorius III in 1217 and was coronated in Žiča). It is also a mausoleum of the First-Crowned Serbian King. The ground plan of the church follows the pattern formed previously in the Church of the Holy Mother of God in the Studenica Monastery with some differences visible at the altar space, making it a model of all future buildings of the 13th century, of the so-called Raška monumental architecture. The church was built in several stages. Firstly, a single nave edifice was erected with three bays and a narthex with a parekklesion on both of its sides, semicircular apse and a dome. The present Western section was separated by a narthex wall until the end of the 13th century, when the wall was removed and the narthex was joined to the nave in a single space. The lateral arms of the transept were erected next to the central bay. After 1220 (but prior to the Great Council in 1221) the prothesis and the diaconicon were added in the altar. By 1230 a spacious exonarthex with a bell-tower was built on the Western side, which has a katechoumemion on the upper floor and a parakklesionon the upper floor of the tower. Another special feature of this church is its façade, which is painted in red. It is believed that the builders came both from Byzantium and the Adriatic. The church was fresco painted by artists from Byzantium. There are two layers of frescoes in the interior: the older one, created around 1220, belongs to the so-called Golden Age of Serbian painting and the younger one, from the beginning of the 14th century, belongs to the painting from the period of the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin (reigned 1282-1321), created under the influence of the so-called Palaiologan Renaissance style. |