Newly discovered portraits of rulers and the dating of the oldest frescoes in Lipljan

Primary tabs

Choose the citation style.
Search for this publication on Google Scholar
Vojvodić, D. (2012). Newly discovered portraits of rulers and the dating of the oldest frescoes in Lipljan, (36), 143-155. doi:10.2298/ZOG1236143D
Details
Title

Newly discovered portraits of rulers and the dating of the oldest frescoes in Lipljan

Subtitle
Author

Dragan, Vojvodić

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

36

Start page

143

End page

155

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG1236143D

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13611236143V

Date

2012-2020/03/11/20:03:14

Abstract

On the façade of the church of the Presentation of the Virgin, in Lipljan, the damaged depictions of two rulers were discovered under a more recent layer of fresco mortar. The depictions can be identified as portraits of the Serbian king and the emperor Stefan Dušan (1331-1355) and his wife Jelena. That provides the basis for the more reliable dating of the original wall painting in the interior of the church. For their part, the stylistic characteristics of that expressionistic painting suggest that the original Lipljan frescoes came into being around the mid-fourteenth century. Probably, they were executed by the same workshop that did the frescoes in the Church of St. Peter near Unjemir in Metohia, not very far from Lipljan.

Keywords

Serbia, Stefan Dušan, Lipljan, rulers' portratis, stylistic trends in the Late Byzantine painting, wall paintings