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“Serbia, A Land of Frescoes” exhibition opened in Vatican
Belgrade/Vatican,
6 July 2011
Minister of Culture, Media and Information Society Predrag Markovic has opened this evening a “Serbia, A Land of Frescoes” exhibition at the Basilica of Saint Apostles in Vatican.
Markovic told Tanjug news agency that with this exhibition Serbia is showing to the world its cultural heritage and added that the visitors will have the opportunity to see, among other things, copies of 21 frescoes as well as scale models of the monasteries Sopocani and Mileseva.
The exhibition “Serbia, A Land of Frescoes” was first showcased in 2007 in Strasbourg and then in Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Paris, Brussels and Florence, where the exhibition was prolonged due to great interest. The Minister announced that after Vatican, the exhibition will be moved to Papal residence in Viterbo, and then to Milan and most probably Trieste. He said that the medieval art kept in Serbian monasteries has impressed the whole world and gives a special mark to the Serbian soil. The exhibition also includes a copy of the famous fresco of the Virgin with Christ Feeder of the Poor from the Church of Mother of Ljevis, then copy of the fresco of St. George (Visoki Decani monastery), portraits of King Milutin and Queen Simonida from Gracanica, a fragment of the composition of the Nativity of Christ (Sopocani monastery), while the Church of St. Dimitrije from the complex of the Patriarchate of Pec will be represented with the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. Ljubostinja, Mileseva and Sopocani monasteries, as well as Visoki Decani, are presented with stone plastic models.
The exhibition “Serbia, A Land of Frescoes” was first showcased in 2007 in Strasbourg and then in Klagenfurt, Ljubljana, Paris, Brussels and Florence, where the exhibition was prolonged due to great interest. The Minister announced that after Vatican, the exhibition will be moved to Papal residence in Viterbo, and then to Milan and most probably Trieste. He said that the medieval art kept in Serbian monasteries has impressed the whole world and gives a special mark to the Serbian soil. The exhibition also includes a copy of the famous fresco of the Virgin with Christ Feeder of the Poor from the Church of Mother of Ljevis, then copy of the fresco of St. George (Visoki Decani monastery), portraits of King Milutin and Queen Simonida from Gracanica, a fragment of the composition of the Nativity of Christ (Sopocani monastery), while the Church of St. Dimitrije from the complex of the Patriarchate of Pec will be represented with the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin. Ljubostinja, Mileseva and Sopocani monasteries, as well as Visoki Decani, are presented with stone plastic models.
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