Zograf : časopis za srednjovekovnu umetnost

: Two Unpublished Icons of the Kastoria School; The paper is dealing with two unpublished icons from the Byzantine museum of Kastoria: Royal door with the Annunciation (nr. 434; ca. 1400) and St. Nicholas with scenes of his Life (nr. 39; the end of 14th century).

: Two signed seventeenth century icons of the Cretan school from the hermitage museum; The article concerns the authorship of two Cretan icons from the ex-collection of Nikolay Likhachev held nowadays in the Hermitage museum. The iconography, stylistic features and techniques used in the icons prove dating to the seventeenth century. The first icon was signed by Ioannis Lampardos from Rethymnon. It has a rare iconography “Deisis - the Gate of Salvation”. The inscription on the second icon, the Virgin Lambovitissa, says that it was painted by hierodeacon Stephanos Tzankarolos. He is famous for his works created on the island of Corfu where he lived in the Holy Trinity monastery.

: Unknown Russian icons at the Holy Lavra of Saint Sabbas the sanctified in Palestine and their iconography; The paper discusses a group of twelve unpublished Russian icons depicting the Great Feasts which make up a selfcontained heortological-liturgical cycle and are kept at the Monastery of Saint Sabbas the Sanctified in the Judean Desert. These icons can be dated to the period 1548-1608, which saw the establishment of dynamic ties between the Palestinian monks of Slavic origin (primarily Serbs) and Russia.

: Unknown and less known icons from Praskvica monastery; This paper deals with the attribution of several icons from the treasury of the Praskvica monastery in Paštrovići. The earliest is the icon of Great Deesis, painted in 1680 by the painter Radul, for the iconostasis of the monastery Church of the Holy Trinity. The works by his apprentice, Dimitrije of Risan - the Great Deesis, the Deesis icon, and the icon of St. Demetrius with an unknown holy woman - we repainted in 1693 and in tended for the earlier monastery church dedicated to St. Nicholas. The same painter was the author of the icon of the Mother of God with Christ and the Royal Deesis, in Praskvica to day, which were painted for the iconostasis of the Church of St. Nicholas in Podostrog. The monastery of Praskvica also houses the icons painted by Maksim Tujkovic in 1714, the Hospitality of Abraham and the Crucifixion, preserved in fragments, which were initially positioned on the iconostasis in the Church of St. Nicholas. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177032]

: Wall Paintings in Churches with a Limited Christological Cycle; This paper deals with twelve small Cretan and Peloponnesian churches, painted in the 13tn, 14tn and 15th centuries. The iconographical program in these churches includes very limited Christological cycles. On the contrary, the lives the patron saints of the churches are illustrated extensively. This phenomenon is related to the growing importance of hagiology from the end of the 13th century onwards.

: Wall paintings of the Davidovica monastery. Additions to the thematical programme and dating; Owing to old photographic plates that recorded those segments of the mural decoration of Davidovica on the Lim which were later destroyed or considerably damaged, it is possible to put forward a more complete reconstruction of its thematic program. The programmatic and iconographic features of both the destroyed frescoes and the surviving ones correspond to the solutions that can be found in Post-Byzantine painting. The palaeographic analysis of inscriptions and the analysis of the style of the murals in the dome, the area under the dome and both chapels in Davidovica clearly indicate that we are dealing with paintings done in the second half of the sixteenth century. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 177036: Srpska srednjovekovna umetnost i njen evropski kontekst i br. 177032: Tradicija, inovacija i identitetu vizantijskom svetu]

: When Job Falls Ill; The particular scene from the Book of Job where Job falls ill, struck down by Satan (Job, II, 1-8), is studied from the link between the Septuagint text and the images that illustrate it. The text, transcribed and translated reveals the vocabulary of the body and the disease of Job, supported by the comments of the Greek Fathers that surround it. Compared with the description of some images issued from the iconographical cycles created especially for the Byzantine Books of Job, the text appears clear and concise. Thus, the text offered large scope for interpretation to the manuscript's painters: the numerous variants of the scene where Job falls ill indicate this.

: Written historical sources and art-historical interpretation; Based on the new analysis of the passage of the text of the Vita of St. Symeon Nemanja dedicated to Virgin’s church at Toplica, written by his son Stefan «the First-Crowened», and a critical recapitulation of archeological findings as well as of attitudes presented in historiography, this article offers new insight into ideological and religious reasons for the rebuilding of this, originally Early Byzantine, church. The event is explained as a part of programmatic intentions related to the restoration of the Archbishopric of Ohrid as succesor of ancient Iustiniana Prima, during the time of archbishop John (Adrian) Komnenos (1140-1163).

: Zur Restaurierungstätigkeit des Michael Dukas Glabas Tarchaneiotes im Pammakaristoskloster und zur Erbauungszeit des Parekklesions; (nemački) Der Beitrag befasst sich mit der Datierung des Pammakristosklosters einer der wichtigsten religiösen Stiftungen im spatbyzantinischen Konstantinopel. Anhand schriftlicher und bildlicher Quellen wird gezeigt dass die Bautätigkeit des Michael Tarchaneiotes im Pammakaristoskloster spätestens 1281 abgeschlossen war, wohingegen das Parekklesion zwischen 1302 und 1304 errichtet wurde, als Michael den Rang eines Protostrators innehatte. Überprüft wird auch die Datierung des Narthex (Esonarthex). Diesen Teil der Kirche hatte Michael entweder von Grund auf neu errichten oder nur die Fassade im palaiologischen Stil erneuern lassen.

: À propos d'un voile brodé vénitien du XIVe siècle à Zadar; Le présent article s'occupe d'un antépendium brodé vénitien, daté entre les années vingt du XIVe siècle et 1337. Sa composition forme un triptyque. L'étude sur l'iconographie et le style de l'œuvre a un but triple: d'abord, de situer l'œuvre dans le cadre de la production artistique vénitienne; ensuite, de distinguer la composante byzantine de la composante occidentale et, enfin, d'offrir une contribution à l'étude de la broderie aussi bien qu'à celle du fonctionnement d'un atelier d'art vénitien. .

: “King’s Painter” Tevdore and his inscriptions; The paper deals with “King’s Painter” Tevdore and his inscriptions preserved in three churches of Upper Svaneti (northwestern highland region of Georgia) dated back to the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The textual and visual data allow us to reconstruct the status of the painter and his impact on the embellishment of these churches. The inscriptions are considered from various perspectives, with a special emphasis on their political and social context. Tevdore’s title stressing his ties with monarchic power aimed to extend the “royal presence” in Svaneti. The spatial constructs, creating semantic focuses for the display of authors’ inscriptions, permit an evaluation of his status and place in the given social system.

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