Welcome to the on-line Fresco Gallery! Interiors of Serbian churches and
monasteries were elaborately decorated with fresco paintings. They survived past
centuries, times of war and peace.
Fresco
painting is a method of painting on freshly applied, wet lime-plaster walls with
colors made by grinding artists' dry-powder pigments in pure water. The
colors dry and
set with the plaster to become a permanent part of the wall.
White
Angel of Mileseva
The famous White Angel pointing out the place where Christ resurrected, Mileseva
monastery, c. 1228
Emperor Dusan
and his wife
Almost 3 meters high, portrait of Emperor Dusan the Mighty and his wife
Jelena, Monastery
of Archangel Michael, c. 1347
Holly
warriors
Manasija monastery
Saint
Sava
St. Sava, Mileseva monastery, c. 1228.
King
Milutin
King Milutin holding a model of his endower monastery, Studenica, 14th century
Queen
Simonida
Milutin's wife, Queen Simonida is being crowned by an angel, Gracanica
Monastery c.1318
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