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15th Century Icons from the Ohrid Icon - Painting Centre |
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Among the icons from the Ohrid
icon-painting centre which we consider to have been painted in the final years of the 14th
century and the first decades of the 15th , we would mention the Royal Doors
and the small icon of the Presentation of the
Mother of God in the Temple from the church of Constantine and Helena in
Ohrid. Professor Voislav J. Duric links these works by unknown painters to the painting in
the nave of this Ohrid church, and considers that they are by the hand of the same master,
and he links the fresco painting or, more precisely, that of the south parekklesion, where
the figure of St. George is depicted, with the icon of the Life of St. George discovered in the church of the same
name in Struga. However in our opinion, while it could well be that these icons originated
in the same master-painters’ circle, or even in the same workshop, it cannot be clamed
that they are the work of the same painters. The painter of the Life of St. George has a
surer and more mature line and harmonization of colours and a greater mastery of the
possibilities of his craft, particularly in details. The unknown painter of this icon has
written the inscription in Old Slavonic and Greek. We can attribute the well-preserved single panel of the Royal Doors from the church of the Mother of God Hospittaller together with the compositions of the Annunciation from the church in the village of Botum, near Ohrid, to one of the remaining local workshops which was active in Ohrid in the 14th century. Today, both works are in the Ohrid Icon Gallery. The icon-painting from this centre, with minor exceptions, shows a gradual decline in quality and in number of works produced.
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