Dyatlova, Elena S. Monumental Painting of Prilep (North Macedonia): A View on Provincial Byzantine Art of the Second Half of the 13th Century

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Title Monumental Painting of Prilep (North Macedonia): A View on Provincial Byzantine Art of the Second Half of the 13th Century
Author email elena.dyatlova@gmail.com
About author Dyatlova, Elena Sergeevna — Ph. D. student. State Institute for Art Studies, Kozitsky per., 5, 125009 Moscow, Russian Federation. ORCID: 0000-0002-9747-3319
In the section Balkan Studies DOI10.18688/aa2111-04-35
Year 2021 Volume 11 Pages 453–467
Type of article RAR Index UDK 75.033.27 Index BBK 85.103(3); 85.143(3)
Abstract

The paper analyses the key stylistic trends of the second part of the 13th century murals in Prilep, North Macedonia in wider context of early Palaiologan art. Stylistic parallels in contemporary Byzantine monuments in Northern Greece, Epirus, and Serbia highlight tight artistic connections of this border town of newly revived Byzantine Empire not only with Serbian kingdom, as it was pointed out by previous Macedonian researches, but also with the Despotate of Epirus. Following the tradition of Epirus, the masters of the workshop of the deacon and referendarius John, who worked in Prilep in the second half of the 13th century, intentionally averted to the Komnenian art as a visual part of the great past of the Byzantine Empire. On the other hand, they were also following the new monumental trends from the metropolitan artistic circles, which also came from the orientation on classical art in its plastic form. Different combinations of these two trends determined the stylistic character of the Byzantine art in North Macedonia in the second half of the 13th century.

This research has been completed with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project № 20-18-00294.
Keywords
Reference Dyatlova, Elena S. Monumental Painting of Prilep (North Macedonia): A View on Provincial Byzantine Art of the Second Half of the 13th Century. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 11. Eds A. V. Zakharova, S. V. Maltseva, E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. — St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg Univ. Press, 2021, pp. 453–467. ISSN 2312-2129. http://dx.doi.org/10.18688/aa2111-04-35
Publication Article language russian
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