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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