International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Mirjana Gligorijević Maksimović
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of History of Art, Belgrade, Serbia; 
[e-mail]
Classical Elements in the Paintings at Saint Niketas near Skopje 
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SERBIAN MEDIEVAL ART
Chairs: 
Ida Sinkević, Ioannis Sisiou 
Jelena Jovanović
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Founded, Re-Founded, Reendowed. Construction and Continuity 
in the Late XII Century Architectural Patronage in Serbia
Velimir Matanović
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Origin of Architectural Décor from the Cathedral Monastery of Studenica
Oliver M. Tomić
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About the Dating of Sopoćani, Its Painters and Purpose
Biljana Cincar Kostić
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Clothing and Textile during the Serbian Queen Helena the Great (1250-1314)
Aleksandra Davidov Temerinski, 
Jacobs’ Wrestling with the Angel in Virgin Ljeviška Church
Véronique Deur-Petiteau
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Images, spatialité et cérémoniel dans le narthex des églises serbes
Anđelija Kozakijević
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Representations of the Table of Wisdom in Serbian Churches of the Fourteenth Century
Branka Gugolj
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The Monastery Rudenica Church and Its Place in the Morava Serbia Architecture
Radmilo Petrović
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Serbian Art in the XVI Century

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Jelena Jovanović
Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy; 
[e-mail]
Founded, Re-Founded, Reendowed. 
Construction and Continuity in the Late XII Century 
Architectural Patronage in Serbia
The paper examines the practice of re-foundation and re-endowment of older structures and 
of foundation of new religious edifices in Serbia at the time of Stefan Nemanja.
The aim of the presentation is not only to cast light on the dynamics, the motives and the context 
of the late XII century religious patronage but also to diachronically deal with the phenomenon of 
despoliation, imitation, surpassing and continuity, wide-spread in the medieval architectural practice.
The XII century architectural commission in Serbia is briefly evidences by encomiastic written 
sources and is in few occasions filled with historical and archaeological records. What the sources 
do not say, but what is nevertheless apparent through remaining materials and artifacts, postulates 
a multiplicity of interrelated motives behind a florid building activity undertaken by both Stefan 
Nemanja and the members of his family. The religious edifices still in place will be considered and 
examined by their distinctive hallmarks, function and location.
Convenience and availability seems to be the factors that lie behind the building practice 
of Serbian patrons but the choice of specific materials and shapes can entail a more meaningful 
purpose. The paper also aims to question the origins of architectural elements that shaped the visual 
identity of the above mentioned churches, with the attempt to trace the routes of their transmission 
within the range of more or less wide geographical area and to reframe their significance from the 
perspective of terms of ‘old’ and ‘new’.