Zograf Longin

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Icon of Saint Sava of Serbia with his father as the holy monk Simeon Nemanja. The scroll in Simeon's hand represents Domentijan's old Serbian ruler biography on the life of St. Simeon from the 13th century. Belgrade National Museum.
Icon of Stefan Uroš III. Dečanski. Visoki Dečani Monastery, between 1572 and 1596

Zograf Longin (* Hvosna in the 1530s) is considered the most important Serbian icon painter of the 16th century. He was also a translator and writer. From his surviving biographical data and autographs it can be seen that he was first a layman and later a monk in the monasteries of Peć and Sopoćani . His actual place of activity was the Visoki Dečani monastery . He worked from 1566 to 1598. From his hand, icons and frescoes have been preserved in the monasteries of Peć , Visoki Dečani, Piva , Velik Hoča , Lovnica and the village church of Cikote and Nikoljica near Bijelo Polje .

Zograf Longin's ascetic style is strongly committed to textual models. His figures are serious, drawn out and strongly follow tendencies of Serbian painting of the 14th century.

Among the icons are the "Icon of Saints Sava and Simeon" ( Serbian National Museum ), the "Icon Stefan Uroš IV. Dečanski" ( Visoki Dečani Monastery ) and the "Icon of Our Lady with Christ" in ( Lovnica Monastery ).

His most famous icon is the Mother of God with Christ, painted for the iconostasis of St. George's Church in Lovnice in today's Bosnia and Herzegovina. The icon, painted on a gold background, impresses with a harmonious selection of colors in green, blue, cinnabar, reddish and ocher tones and nuanced colors. This icon was presented together with compositions by Serbian masters of the Baroque period, including Paja Jovanović, in the Serbian pavilion at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 .

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  1. ↑ Oto Bihalji-Merin (Ed.): ИКОНЕ СРБИЈЕ и МАКЕДОНИЈЕ. Prosveta, Beograd 1962, p. XVII.
  2. ↑ Aleksandra Nitić: 119. Icon with Saints Sava and Symeon. In: Helen C. Evan: Byzantium - Faith and Power (1261-1557). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York / Yale University Press, New Haven 2004, ISBN 1-58839-113-2 , pp. 200-201.

Web links

  • Audio contribution from Radio Belgrade from October 12, 2017 on Zograf login "Kod dva bela goluba" (Serbian 60 min.) Rts.rs
personal data
SURNAME Longin, zographer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian icon painter
DATE OF BIRTH between 1530 and 1539
PLACE OF BIRTH Hvosna
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century