Open AccessWall paintings of the Davidovica monastery: Additions to the thematical programme and dating
Author(s) -
Dragan Vojvodić
Publication year - 2015
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/zog1539177v
Subject(s) - mural , fresco , painting , dome (geology) , byzantine architecture , art , style (visual arts) , visual arts , art history , archaeology , history , geology , classics , paleontology
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