Đorđe Mitrofanović

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Djordje Mitrofanović (also known as Georgije Mitrofanović and Georgios Mitrophanovic, though the exact date of his birth is unknown) was the most famous 16th- and 17th-century (c. 1550-c. 1630) Serbian painter, remembered best for his work on the church at the Morača monastery and the wall paintings inside the church at the Serbian Krupa monastery. Mitrofanović, a monk, had trained at a workshop in the Serbian Hilandar monastery, situated on Mount Athos, Greece, before coming to Montenegro where he worked on frecoes in the Morača monastery.

Serbian Patriarch Pajsije initiated the restoration of the old 13th- and 14th-century churches of the Patriarchate of Peć in 1620. All the domes of the churches were covered with lead, the Church of St. Demetrius was practically rebuilt, and almost half of the frescoes were restored by Mitrofanović, giving them a new layer. The major part of the early 17th-century frescoes in the church is found in the altar and in the space between the cupola. Retaining the old subjects and respecting the preceding compositional solutions, Mitrofanović tended to approach the artistic attitude of master painter John's from the 14th century retaining at the same time his own warmer colouring.

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http://www.varvar.ru/en/serbian-art/mitrofanovic/index.html:

The icon of Saints Demetrius, George, Artemius and Procopius, Hilandar Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece, 1618
The freco of Patriarch Jovan, 1619-1620
Annunciation. Centre door of an iconostasis of Saint Tryphon Church in Hilandar Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece, 1621

http://www.eparhija-dalmatinska.hr/manastiri-krupa-e.htm: Krupa monastery

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Name	Mitrofanović, Đorđe
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