Abstract
Church dignitaries were often represented as ktetors in Serbian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, primarily in wall paintings and on icons. The first part of this paper discusses twelve ktetor representations of Serbian patriarchs and metropolitans. By analyzing the ktetoric projects of Orthodox Serbs within the Ottoman Empire, the historical framework and description of every portrait, it explores the questions regarding not only the self-referentiality of the ktetors from the highest circles of the clergy under the Patriarchate of Pec, the patterns and ways they wanted to be represented and remembered, but also the ideological and program context as well. Finally, this two-part study attempts to examine the question of individual and collective identity, imagery and ideas constructing the visual culture of clerical ktetorship in Serbian Post-Byzantine painting.
Highlights
Оригиналан научни рад Church dignitaries were often represented as ktetors in Serbian painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, primarily in wall paintings and on icons
Ktetor portraits of ecclesiastical dignitaries in Serbian Post–Byzantine painting during Turkish rule did not lose any of the features of the genre, nor did they fall behind the previous period by number.[9]. They appear within compositions which include patron saints, and independently. Most of these portraits have been preserved in wall paintings, with only a few on icons.[10] first part of this study presents ktetor portraits of the highest clergy – patriarchs and metropolitans
Pećka patrijaršija, Beograd 1990, 261; Samardžić, Srpska pravoslavna personality of the patriarch stood at the center of the ef- crkva u XVI i XVII veku, 53–54
Summary
36 Priests had their own schools (at the monasteries), where (1622) was founded in 1622 with the aim of establishing the Union. they learnt to read and write. 30 Samardžić, Srpska pravoslavna crkva u XVI i XVII veku, 37 S. Revival of artistic activity it had brought have shown that among the clergy there were many who rewrote, translated and created original works, raised churches, looked after wall paintings and the creation of religious art. For they will be made holy who observe holy things in holiness, and those who have been taught them will find a defence. Pećka patrijaršija, Beograd 1990, 261; Samardžić, Srpska pravoslavna personality of the patriarch stood at the center of the ef- crkva u XVI i XVII veku, 53–54
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