The painted program in the dome of the Church of St. George in Dobrilovina

Abstract

The fairly well-preserved fresco paintings in the dome of the Church of St. George at the Dobrilovina Monastery feature some rather unusual programmatic and iconographical solutions. The depiction of the Presanctified Liturgy and the figures of some Old Testament characters represented in the drum of the dome have no known parallels in the dome programs of Post-Byzantine monuments in the area of the Patriarchate of Peć. A troparion dedicated to the patron saint of the church was inscribed in the ring of the dome, which also bears evidence to the learnedness of the creator of this fresco ensemble, an important source for the research of Serbian wall paintings from the period after the restoration of the Patriarchate of Peć. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177036: Srpska srednjovekovna umetnost i njen evropski kontekst]

Keywords

• Dobilovina Monastery
• dome
• seventeenth century Serbian wall paintings
• Presanctified Liturgy
• prophets
• troparion for St. George