Anastas – family from Krushevo dealing with a zograft during ⅹⅰⅹ c. The oldest known is Anastasian Hristov, whose signed icons in the church “St. The Virgin “in the village. White Church of Krushevo date from 1826. Signing in Greek and Church Slavic language, Anastasius’s icons are followed by the 60s of ⅹⅰⅹ c., Especially in Gevgelija, Kavadarechko and western Macedonia. The literature is named as Atanas. His sons Vangel, Costa (Kostadin) and Nikola Anastas are one of the most fertile painters in the renewed or newly built churches from the second half of ⅹⅰⅹ c. Equally work on the wall painting and icon painting, usually all together or separately. Their signatures meet in the churches in Prilep, Demirhisar, Krusevo, Kavadarov, but also in the territory of today’s Greece. These painters paint quickly, hence the quantity of works, without artistic ambitions, are at the level of craft fulfillment. Lit.: A. Vasiliev, Bulgarian Vishosno Masters, Sofia, 1965, 278-279; K. Balabanov, Krusevo and Krusevo, Krusevo, 1978, 311-313; A. Nikolovski, records and expert documentation of religious buildings in Krushevo region, “cultural heritage”, 14-15, Skopje, 1990, 135-136; Cv. Grozdanov, the art and culture of ⅹⅰⅹ century in western Macedonia, Skopje, 2004; C. Popovska-Corobar, icons from the Museum of Macedonia, Skopje, 2004, 324. V. P.-
Original article in Macedonian language Cyrillic alphabet
Кириличен напис АНАСТАСОВИ