Latin-Byzantine artistic interactions and the church of Saint Basil in Mržep (Montenegro)
The present paper offers some thoughts on and a new interpretive frame of the painted program of the small, single-nave church of Saint Basil in Mržep, in the vicinity of Donji Stoliv, in the Vrmac peninsula near Kotor, Montenegro. This monument stands out for the abundance of available information...
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| Language: | English |
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Institute for Balkan Studies SASA
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Balcanica |
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| Online Access: | https://doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2024/0350-76532455123B.pdf |
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| Summary: | The present paper offers some thoughts on and a new interpretive frame of
the painted program of the small, single-nave church of Saint Basil in
Mržep, in the vicinity of Donji Stoliv, in the Vrmac peninsula near Kotor,
Montenegro. This monument stands out for the abundance of available
information on its history, including the name of the painter (Mihailo), the
identity of the donor (Stefan Kalođurđević) and even the date of its
construction and pictorial decoration (1451). Nevertheless, the
art-historical debate has been mostly puzzled by the melange,
Latin-Byzantine character of the painted images, which has been explained as
an outcome of the Union of the Orthodox and Roman churches declared at the
Council of Ferrara-Florence in 1438-1439. The analysis provided here
emphasizes the scarcity of indications about the impact of the latter’s
resolutions on the arts and proposes an alternative interpretation that
associates the choice of specific forms with the devotional strategies
worked by Stefan Kalođurđević for his and his family’s spiritual health. |
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| ISSN: | 0350-7653 2406-0801 |