Janko Mihailović Moler (in Cyrillic Serbian: Јанко Михаиловић Молер;

Negrišori Negrišori is a village in the municipality of Lučani, Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pan ...

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, 1792 - Negrišori,

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, 1853) was a Serbian priest and artist. He was an icon and portrait painter.

Biography

He is known for painting the icons of the

iconostasis In Eastern Christianity, an iconostasis ( gr, εἰκονοστάσιον) is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a Church (building), church. ''Iconostasis'' also refers to a portable icon stand t ...

of the

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in Ježevica Monastery, the Orthodox church in Guča, the church of

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monastery, the monastery and the wooden church of Dobroselica, on the

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mountains. With his son Sreten Protić, he painted the iconostasis of the Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of

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, near

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, in 1831, and the Church of St. John the Baptist in

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. He also did the portrait of Nikifor Maksimović, the founder of the Sretenje monastery near Čačak. He is also credited with the coat of arms of the Obrenović dynasty, which adorns the façade of Jovan Obrenović's '' konak'' in Čačak.https://www.cacakmuzej.org.rs/files/Vodic_Engleski.pdf

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Biography

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