St. Nicholas Hospital “- the main church of the hospital enormous near the medieval Lower Gate in Ohrid. It was built and painted between 1330-1340. The frescoes in the church is fully preserved and after its program conception and after grouping the representations church “St. Nikola Hospital, “Ohrid (ⅹⅳ c.) Of St. Nicholas, the patron of the Church, St. Kliment accompanied by the Holy Dovman Kuzman and Damjan, and sometimes St. Naum on the south wall, as well as the painting of the deisis and the Holy Warriors of the opposite, northern wall, becomes a paradigm for most small one-aisle churches and chapels from the ⅹⅳ century. The southern facade is frescoed around 1345. As the criterion of the Archbishop Nicholas, where he is painted together with St. Trifun and St. Nicholas, Serbian contemporary rulers Stephen Dushan with his wife Elena, son Uros, as well as their ancestors St. Sava and St. Simeon Nemanja. In the middle of the ⅹⅴ century, a small chapel was built on the southern side of the church, which is considered the foundation of Marko Xilocaravis, Ohrid Archbishop and former Constantinople Patriarch, from the first years after the fall of Constantinople. The original painting of the chapel is stored in the apse and the east wall, while the northern wall of the frescoes of this layer were visible until the thirties of the ⅹⅹ century. In 1480/1 And the Western façade of the church is frescoed with an interesting program that contains several scenes dedicated to Christ, the Virgin and St. Nicholas. Lit.: France Metsnell, the medium monuments offer Ohrid, and, church St. Nikole Bolnnogg and Snaye Fremke, GSD, ⅹⅰⅰ, Skopje, 1933, 157-177; Costa Balabanov, new data on the church Nikola Hospital in Ohrid, “Cultural Heritage”, ⅱ, Skopje, 1961, 33-35; Cvetan Grozdanov, the Ohrid wall painting from the ⅹⅳ century, Ohrid, 1980, 37-45; Gojko Subotic, the Ohrid Picture School of ⅹⅴ century, Ohrid, 1980, 104-114. S. C. Chip Name, “St. Nicholas, “Varos (ⅹⅴⅰ-ⅹⅴⅰⅰ c.)
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