Žarko M. Tatić ( sr-cyr, Жарко М. Татић; 18941931) was a renowned

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

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architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

active in the first decades of the 20th century. His field of research was the history of Medieval Serbian architecture in the country and beyond (

Mount Athos Mount Athos (; el, Ἄθως, ) is a mountain in the distal part of the eponymous Athos peninsula and site of an important centre of Eastern Orthodox monasticism in northeastern Greece. The mountain along with the respective part of the penins ...

). He was among the first Serbian art historians to make research on

. He stayed there in 1923, when he made a detailed study of its medieval architecture. In the same year, the

Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts ( la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Serbica, sr-Cyr, Српска академија наука и уметности, САНУ, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, SANU) is a national academy and the ...

decided to send an expedition to Mount Athos and

Hilandar The Hilandar Monastery ( sr-cyr, Манастир Хиландар, Manastir Hilandar, , el, Μονή Χιλανδαρίου) is one of the twenty Eastern Orthodox monasteries in Mount Athos in Greece and the only Serbian monastery there. It wa ...

monastery, to study its architecture. Tatić's results were first published in the newspaper Politika under the title ''Letter from the Holy Mountain'', and subsequently included in his very popular and widely read book ''Tragom velike prošlosti'' (In Search of the Glorious Past) printed in belgrade in 1929.

Bibliography (partial)

* ''Tragom velike prošlosti'' (Belgrade, 1929) * ''L'art byzantin chez les Slaves: les Balkans'' (1930) * ''L'encien église de cimetière à Smederevo'' * ''Markov Manastir''

References

Serbian architects Serbian art historians 1894 births 1931 deaths {{DEFAULTSORT:Tatic, Zarko