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Rasprave i studije/Traits et tudes

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Gordana Miloevi, Miloje Vasi,

Nadeda Gavrilovi

Villa with an Octagon at Mediana near Ni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

26
27
47

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Marko Popovi, Danica Popovi

Graves of Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in Monastery ia

Olivera Kandi}

The First Hegoumenos of Monastery Sopoani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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49
54

, ( 4)

Dimitrije Madas

Monastery Banjska, Grave of Queen Theodora (Grave 4) . . . . . . .

55
65

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,

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67

Nata{a Miladinovi}-Radmilovi},
Aleksa Janovi}, Zoran Rako~evi}

Anthropological Analysis of the skeletal remains from the Founders

Grave in the Church of St John at Studenica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

82

Ivanka Gergova

On Spasovica, Once Again

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83
92

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93

Marin Brmboli}

Petrus Fortress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Branislav Cvetkovi

Unusual Scenes in the Narthex of the Church of Monastery Joanica

Ta

.
I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Tatjana Starodubcev

Written Sources on the Churches and Monasteries Built or Restored

in the Domains of the Lazarevi and Brankovi Families . . . . . . . . 145

a,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
In Search of the Folk poet: Azdiya,Velvet in Medieval Serbia . . . . 163

Tatjana Vuleta

,
Aneta Serafimova, ehona pahiu

Miroslava Kosti

111
131

. . . . . 165
New Rule Another Faith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
IV
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

179

Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanovi and the Constitution of the Cult

of Count Georgije Brankovi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Miroslav Timotijevi}

Vesna Biki

SADR@AJ

a, , :
1.

203

Picture, Word, Ritual: Beginnings of the Liturgical Celebration

of the New Year on January 1st and Kraun's Circumcision of Jesus
on the Iconostasis of the Cathedral Church at Sremski Karlovci . . .

225

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. . . . . . . . . . .

227

In manibus tuis commendo domine spiritum meumDevotionals

of the Austrian Army from the Belgrade Fortress . . . . . . . . . . . . .

246

/Contributions
. a

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

251

The Newly Discovered Cemetery in the Village of Miljen

near Ljubinje . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

261

, :

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

263

Bojan S. Turanjanin

Jelena Todorovi, Biljana Crvenkovi

Nenad Lajbenperger

Creating Space of Sovereignty The Artistic Workshop of Bernhard

Ludwig of Vienna and the Design of the Royal Courts in Rumania
and Belgrade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

277

-
-
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

279

Memorial Ossuary at egligovski Kamen near Mlado Nagoriane

as Part of the History of the Memorial Ossuary at Zebrnjak . . . . .

287

Prikazi i kritike/Comptes-rendus et critiques

.

Henry Maguire, NECTAR AND ILLUSION: Nature in

Byzantine Art and Literature. Onassis series in
Hellenic culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

289

, . . . . . . . . . . . .

291

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294

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NEW RULE ANOTHER FAITH

Towards Studying on the Islamic Influences upon
the Post-Byzantine Painting
In contrast to the architectural and ethnological context, Islamic
influences on painting as a primary painterly/visual medium have
not been the subject of more elaborate scholarly analyses.
The subject matter of our research is precisely Islamic
influences in the Post-Byzantine painting in the period between
the 15th and 18th centuries in the region of Turcocratic Macedonia.
The influences ascertained by our analyses are classified in three
groups that are iconographically defined as follows: (1) influences
on the iconography of saints; (2) influences on the iconography of
themes and scenes and (3) influences on the depiction of the
interior and the exterior in the scenes. By analyzing the
semiological aspects of the iconographic modifications, we
conclude that Islamic influences are (1) essential in terms of the
content, which points to a new reading of the traditional Byzantine
thematic wholes and (2) these influences are formal/illustrative/
decorative in nature.

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NEW RULE ANOTHER FAITH

The focus of our scholarly interest are exactly those Islamic

influences that have a semiotic impact on (Post)Byzantine
painting. Tracing the penetration of figures dressed in traditional
Ottoman Turkish and Persian Turkish garments, as well as the
frequent replacement of the sword with the yataghan in PostByzantine painting, we conclude that the formal changes have an
essential effect on the symbolism of the themes and the scenes,
giving them new meaning.
An overall analysis (excepting the saints representations)
demonstrates that the fresco painters of the Late Middle Ages
substituted the terms Jews/Judeans, heretics, heterodoxoi and
pagans which were encountered in the scene descriptions (the
subject matter of the focus of our research) in their painters
manuals (Erminia) and visualized them as groups of figures in
characteristic Ottoman Turkish garments.
The historical and social context of Islamic influences are of
particular interest for our analyses, due to the fact that our
objective was to provide a more precise determining of the
chronological framework of their penetration in the painting of
the Late Middle Ages in the wider Balkan region.