CDPC Byzantine frescoes of Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro

The history of Byzantine art in Eastern Europe begins with their Christianization " - these words of Demetrius Obolensky can be put by an epigraph to the review of the monuments of medieval art of the Balkan Slavs collected in this publication. For several centuries, a single spiritual field of Byzantine civilization acted as a conductor of powerful artistic impulses that went from Constantinople towards their own aspirations of peoples baptized in Orthodoxy. On the lands included in the borders of modern Balkan states - Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, magnificent temples decorated with fresco paintings were created. In the best of them, such as the picturesque ensembles of the Sofia, Nerezi, Kurbinovo, the Studenitsa, the Mileshevs, the Supers of the Byzantine “speculation in colors” gained the novelty and courage of artistic incarnations, the depth and power of the disclosure of the enduring values ​​of Christianity. The disk includes photos of medieval architectural and fresco ensembles of Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia, with descriptions and comments of plots. Designed for a wide range of readers. System requirements:
Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP operating system
Intel /AMD 500 MHz processor
128 MB of RAM
Internet Explorer 5.0
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