Radoslav (painter)

Radoslav (Serbian: Радослав) was a miniaturist painter and manuscript illuminator[1] who lived in the first part of the 15th century Serbia.[2] Today in Serbia he is referred to as Slikar (Painter) Radoslav. Very little information is known about him, except for his five surviving, signed pieces.[3] The fresco decorations of Kalenić Monastery is his masterpiece.[4]

It is said that the merit of this fifteenth-century art in Serbia which was both lordly and monastic and which was the product of luxury and asceticism alike, reconciled the outer with the inner beauty.[5] The two miniatures, one of St. Luke with a bull and the other of St. Mark with a lion are perhaps the finest examples of this complex, traditional culture, which found its most perfect expression in the art of painting.[6] The two miniatures come from a New Testament, done at Kalenić Monastery, dating from 1429. It is now part of a collection in the National Library of Russia (since 1932 named after Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin).[7]

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References
  1. "Manuscript illuminator".
  2. Janićijević, Jovan (1998). The cultural treasury of Serbia. ISBN 9788675470397.
  3. Janićijević, Jovan (1996). Kulturna riznica Srbije. ISBN 9788675470397.
  4. Strezova, Anita (September 2014). Hesychasm and Art: The Appearance of New Iconographic Trends in Byzantine and Slavic Lands in the 14th and 15th Centuries. ISBN 9781925021851.
  5. Unesco (1978). "The Unesco Courier".
  6. Jevtović, Jevta; Sorić, Ante; Milošević, Desanka; Skovran, Anika (1985). "Srednjovjekovna umjetnost Srba: Iz muzeja, riznica, manastira i crkava : [katalog".
  7. "Istorija srpskog naroda: Doba borbi za očuvanje i obnovu države 1371-1537". 1892.
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