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".
  3. Janićijević, Jovan (1996). "Kulturna riznica Srbije".
  4. https://books.google.ca/books?id=sMvIBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR16&dq=Radoslav,+15th+century&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwif1bWzt-fqAhUGOs0KHWSmCOoQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=Radoslav%2C%2015th%20century&f=false
  5. "The Unesco Courier". 1978.
  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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