Open AccessThe portraits of Byzantine and Serbian rulers in the monastery of Treskavac
Author(s) -
Saso Cvetkovski
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
zograf
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2406-0755
pISSN - 0350-1361
DOI - 10.2298/zog0731153c
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , serbian , portrait , art , ancient history , classics , history , art history , philosophy , linguistics
Testimony of the almost 800 year-long history of the monastery of Treskavac one of the great monastic and spiritual centres of the Ohrid archbishopric in addition to historical sources, chrysobulls, manuscripts, inscriptions and monastery records, lies in the presentations of historical personalities on the walls of the monastery's Church of the Dormition of the Virgin. In terms of importance, among them, one may single out the images of Byzantine emperors and the Serbian king, Stefan Dušan