Church of Saint Panteleimon, Gorno Nerezi

Coordinates: 41°58′37″N 21°22′26″E / 41.977°N 21.374°E / 41.977; 21.374
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Church of Saint Panteleimon
Style
Byzantine

The Church of Saint Panteleimon (

St. Panteleimon, the patron saint of physicians. The church was constructed in 1164 as a foundation of Alexios Angelos, a son of Constantine Angelos
.

The church has a domed cruciform core, three apses, and a rectangular narthex. It is built of irregular stone blocks and brick embedded in thick layers of mortar. The surrounding monastery complex is enclosed by walls.

The frescoes in the church are famous examples of

Latomou Monastery in Thessaloniki. The church was damaged by an earthquake in the 16th century. In the restoration that followed, some of the frescoes in the upper middle region have been repainted. The original marble iconostasis
survived the earthquake, but lost its decorative plastic art.

In another restoration attempt in 1885, the larger part of the frescoes in the naos were painted over rather ineptly. During cleaning in 1923, some of the original 12th-century frescoes were restored.

The coloring, dramatic composition and purity of expression displayed in the frescoes are outstanding examples of Byzantine medieval monumental painting in the later 12th century.

The church's stucco decoration is depicted on the obverse of the Macedonian 50 denars banknote, issued in 1996.[1]

Renaissance origins

Church of St. Panteleimon
Pietà in frescoes in St. Panteleimon

According to

Arena Chapel in Padua, circa 1305. He concludes "...the Byzantine east played a much more formative role in the development of renaissance art than Vasari was prepared to concede".[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonian currency. Banknotes in circulation: 50 Denars Archived 2008-03-29 at the Wayback Machine. – Retrieved on 30 March 2009.
  2. ^ a b Andrew Graham-Dixon, Renaissance. BBC, London (1999)

Matthias Bronisch, Oplakuvanjeto vo Sv.Pantelejmon - Nerezi. In: Kulturen Zivot, 74, 8-9, S.18-22

Books

  • Petar Miljković-Pepek: Nerezi (Kunstdenkmäler in Jugoslawien). Jugoslavija, Beograd 1966.
  • Ida Sinkević: The Church of St. Panteleimon at Nerezi: Architecture, programme, patronage. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000, .
  • Andrew Graham-Dixon: Renaissance. London: BBC, 1999. .