“Holy Mother of God Peribleptos (St. Clement)” – One of the most significant monuments of the Paleologic Renaissance. It was erected in 1294/95 From the Great Hiterarch persecution Church “St. The Virgin Zauma “near Ohrid (ⅹⅳ c.) The Zet of the Byzantine Emperor Andronicologist ⅱ Paleologist, and the Ohrid Archbishop Macarius, whose names are noticed in the stored capacity inscription. The first decisication of this monastery temple is the Virgin Peribleptos, however, towards the end of the ⅹⅴ century, due to the demolition of the churches “St. Sofia “and” St. Panteleimon “(Plaoshnik), the headquarters of the Ohrid Archbishopric was transmitted in this temple, which gained the role of a mother-church within the Ohrid diocese. Then from “St. Panteleimon “In this church were transferred and the relics of St. Kliment Ohridski, therefore, in the people, he is known as St. Kliment Church. Near the temple there was an Archbishop’s palace, where the archbishopric staff worked. As the first temple of the Archbishopric, he served S “until her abolition in 1767, and then was the temple of the metropolitan. The spatial conception of the temple is inscribed cross with a dome of osmopoly tambour and narthex. At the end of the ⅹⅳ century two chapelis on the north side, dedicated to St. Grigory Theologian and on the south side of the altar. Later (in the ⅹⅴⅰ century) around the main corps of the church was built closed porch, on which on the west side it was built open porch. The method of masonry and processing of facades is decorative in combination of stone and brick. The altar apse of the temple “St. The Virgin Peribleptos “(” St. The fresco painted with a world reputation as one of the most notxious ensembles in Macedonian art and in the art of the Protorisan of Paleologists. The painters Mikhail and Eutychih have repeatedly signed on the frescoes, and after Ohrid, they also painted in other temples in Northern Macedonia and Serbia, as well as in the Thessaloniki region. It is assumed that their works are in Mount Athos. Their influence was great on followers who were created later in the central parts of the Balkans. This fresco painting is treated as a revolutionary step in the history of art in artistic and aesthetic views of the time when it created Gjoto. A number of cycles mentioned in the Church mentioned: the childhood of the Virgin (the apocryphal life of the Virgin); The Dormition of the Virgin; One of the greatest ensembles of the prefigures of the Virgin in the narthex; Christ’s suffering; The great holidays; The painting of the dome with Christ Pantocrator, prophets and evangelists; The eucharistic cycle in the altar; More figures of monks, sacred warriors, apostles, martyrs, holy doctors, mostly in the first zone and pillars, as whole figures and as disputes. Some of them represent thematic units. This oldest and most of the frescoes of 1294/95 Contains and brings major changes in the art of the Byzantine style and medieval art in Europe: the narrative way of displaying the scenes is broken, realistic elements and dramatism in the display, deepens the background and develop a new way of displaying the painted architecture. In this first stage of the painting of Mikhail and Eutychius, “structuralism” is present with elements of geometry, both in the disposition of the scenes, as well as in the definition of older characters. Also, the back of the church “St. Virgin Peribleptos “(” St. Clement “), Ohrid (1294/95) The landscape in the scenes, intertwined with the interior in which the action develops. For the temple of the Virgin Peribleptos, Mikhail and Eutychius painted and icons distributed in two phases, which would talk about two of their stay in Ohrid. This temple is the first known work, and later they boographed the church “St. George “in Staro Nagorichane (Kumanovo) and” St. Nikita “(Skopje). With an attributive method, the frescoes in the church “St. Joachim and Anna “(Kralja Church) in the complex of Studenica, as well as the church” St. Virgin Levevean “in Prizren. It is rightly assumed that they participate in the boiling of a part of the church “St. Apostles “(Pec Patriarchate) in Pec. About 1364/5 Three new paintings in the porch of the temple were painted: The Akatist of the Virgin (on the north side), the terrible court (on the south side) and the heavenly yard (on the west side). Approximately at that time, the two chapelis, which is made up to the altar, during the time of the Ohrid Archbishop Gregory ⅱ. The painters of these ensembles worked under the influence of the great painter Jovan Theory, who, in Ohrid, formed his workshop and had numerous followers in the city and other parts of Macedonia. In the last years of the ⅹⅴⅰ century, on the west side of the porch, over the celestial courtyard, the terrible court is painted, one of the richest performances of this topic in Postzantine Art. Lit.: M. Evilibilities ¢, Aged Churches of areas Review and Ohrid, an olderian, ⅲ, Belgrade, 1925; D. Boskos ¢ – K. Tomovski, medieval architecture in Ohrid, “Proceedings”, Ohrid, 1961; H. Hallensleben, Die Arcchuturszchitzktzhtzhtche Stelung der Kirzhe St. Virgin Peribleptos (St. Clement) In Ohrid, Section dedicated to Dimce Koco, REC. 6-7, Archaeological Museum of Macedonia, Skopje, 1979, 297, 316, CV. Grozdanov, Attachments Knowdivestija collection Arts Ohrid, “Zula”, 2, Novi Sad, 1966, 197-232; The same, illustration of Hymnasic Virgin Akatista U churches The Vogonodice Perventepe U Ohrido, in: Problem Svetozara Radojci ¢ A, Belgrade, 1969, 39-54; The same, Ohrid wall painting from the ⅹⅳ century, Ohrid, 1980. CV. Gr. – Cr. T.
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