St. Constantine and Elena “- a one-aisled church with an overwhelmed vault in the form of a transhipment and doubed the chapel of the iconostasis in the monastery” St. Jovan Bigorski, “(1835) The south side dedicated to St. Church “St. Constantine and Elena, “Ohrid (ⅹⅳ c.) Five. The church was built towards the end of ⅹⅳ c., As a wedding of the Jeromonk Partnoy, the great spiritualian of Ohrid, and more decades served as a chapel of his family. Jeromonk Partnoy, his mother preserved Mary, as well as his early Michael’s son, painted on the southern wall of the church in the kitoric composition. The church contains more complex decoration and, except the cycle of large holidays and the usual choice of saints from the first zone, Christ’s torments and sufferings are painted, as well as the interesting decoration of the transpiration by painting the heavenly liturgy and the Holy Trinity. On the western facade of the southern chapel, the extensive life of Sts is painted. Five, while the southern facade of the Church contains an interesting painted program. Apart from the metrical composition, presented Archimandrite Nicanor and his family, in the above zones is painted the cycle dedicated to Can-Roth Constantine, which is a rarity in medieval painting. Lit.: Gojko Suboti, St. Constantine and Jelena U Ohridovo, Belgrade, 1971; The same, the Ohrid Picture School of ⅹⅴ century, Ohrid, 1980, 78-86; Cvetan Grozdanov, the Ohrid wall painting from the ⅹⅳ century, Ohrid, 1980, 159-169. S. C.
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