Grozdanov, Tsvetan (Ohrid, 5. ⅲ 1936) – art historian, university professor and academician. He finished elementary and secondary education in Ohrid, and studied and graduated (1961) of the Art History Group at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. His diploma labor “newly discovered medieval portraits in Ohrid” was highly rated and published (Proceedings for fine arts, no. 2). After graduation, as a scholar of the Government of the SRM, he was specialization in medieval and Byzantine art at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (1961-1963). He started his professional career as a curator at the National Museum in Ohrid, where Ra-Cvetan Grozdanov Boop on the topography of sacred monuments in southwestern Macedonia, especially in the Struga, Debar and Prespa region. In 1966/1967, as a scholar of the French government, he was on the improvement of Hollerge de Fress (in prof. A. Grabar). In late 1969 It is elected as an assistant in art history of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, and after the renewal of the Art History Group (1977), he was taught history of Byzantine art. He received his doctorate at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade on the topic “Ohrid wall painting from the ⅹⅳ century”. In 1980 is selected for extraordinary, and in 1985 for a full-time professor. With their own abstricts he performed at numerous domestic and international scientific gatherings, and his papers were published in scientific rules in the country and abroad. The scientific research activity for the most part includes the study of the Middle Ages (IX-ⅹⅳ) and the period of the Ottoman rule in Macedonia and in the neighboring Balkan restaurants, and is based on the fieldwork that it performed in several Balkan countries, above all in Macedonia and in the world Gora. The chronological span of the matter that examines the monuments of the time of St. Kliment Ohridski, Samuil’s state, the art of the Ohrid Archbishopric and the time of the rebirth, and also writes for some phenomena and creators of contemporary Macedonian art. Much of his opus refers to the discovery, identification and study of the portraits of St. Cyril and Methodius and their disciples – St. Clement, St. Naum, St. Gorazd, St. Sava, St. Angelaryi (known as Seven Smoons). He is the most prominent connoisseur of the problem of the artistic representation of the Slavic saints in the art of the Balkans to ⅹⅰⅹ c. He also deals with the study of the Portets of the Saints (St. Erasmus Lyhnidski, St. Achilles Lariski, St. Fifteen Tiberiopoly Martyrs), whose cult was established in Macedonia before the migration of the Slavs, and their place in the frescoes received after their Christianization. He studies the art performances of the saints who have been penetrated and canonized in the Macedonian Slavic environment (St. Joachim Osogovski, St. Prohor Pchinski, St. Gavril Lesnovo) and their distribution in other Balkan environments, as well as the portraits of the prominent church figures (Ohrid Archbishop Konstantin Cavassila, Bishop St. Hilarion Meglenski and Archbishop Theophylact Ohrid, discovered in the Protess of Mount Athos). There is a special merit for the synthesis of Ohrid painting from ⅹⅳ c. Whereas, in addition to studies of cycles and thematic characteristics, it also presents stylascular development guidance, as well as in the field of research and pro-learning of other monuments from the territory of Macedonia (St. George Polog, Mark Monastery, the Virgin Monastery – Treskovec in Prilep , Lesnovo, St. Fifteen Tiberiopoly Martyrs, etc.). He has published about 300 scientific articles and separate publications. In addition to educational activity, he also performed several duties and functions in the social bodies and bodies in the field of science and culture: President of the Republican Commission for Cultural Relations abroad and a member of the Executive Council of the Assembly of the SRM, President of the Society of Is-Toricians of the Art The SRM, a member of the Yugoslav Commission of UNESCO, member of the Yugoslav Committee on Wantatology, member of the Federal Commission on Cultural Relations with abroad, the Mi-monograph “St. Naum Ohrid” from C. Grozdanov Cultural Culture in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia (2001-2003), Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, etc. For a member of MANU, he was elected in 1991, and for an external member of Sanu in 2003. For its scientific activity, there has been numerous awards and recognitions in the country and abroad. BIB.: Illustration Hymns The Virgin Vogoratic Akatista U Churches The Vogonodice Peribleupte U Ohrido, Svetozara Radojca, Belgrade, 1969, 39-54; Ohrid wall painting from ⅹⅳ century, Belgrade – Ohrid, 1980; Portraits of the saints from Macedonia from IX-ⅹⅴⅰⅰⅰ century, Skopje, 1983; C. Grozdanov – D. > Ornakov, historical portraits U Polog (ⅱ), “Zograf”, 15, Belgrade, 1984, 85-93; They, historical portraits U Polog (ⅲ), “Zograf”, 18, Belgrade, 1987, 37-43; Studies on Ohrid Vivid, Skopje, 1990; C. Grozdanov – L. H. Misgukch, Kurbinovo, Skopje, 1992; Achilles Lariski in the Byzantine and post-reporting paint, “Medieval Art”, 3, Skopje, 2001, 7-33; The art and culture of ⅹⅰⅹ century in western Macedonia, Skopje, 2004; Kurbinovo and other studies of fresco painting in Prespa, Skopje, 2006; The frescoes of the Ohrid Archbishopric, MANU, Skopje, 2007. A. C.-M. Ratomir Grozdanoski
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