Serbian calligraphy ( sr, краснопис/, /) is a form of
calligraphy based on the
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
used to write the
Serbian language
Serbian (, ) is the standardized variety of the Serbo-Croatian language mainly used by Serbs. It is the official and national language of Serbia, one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina and co-official in Montenegro and K ...
. The most notable calligraphists are
Zaharije Orfelin
Zaharije Orfelin ( sr-Cyrl, Захаријe Орфелин; 1726 – 19 January 1785) was a Serbs, Serbian polymath who lived and worked in the Austrian Monarchy and Republic of Venice, Venice.
Works
*''Pesan novosadelanuje za gradjanku go ...
(1720–1785),
Hristofor Žefarović
Hristofor Žefarović ( bg, Христофор Жефарович, sr-cyr, Христофор Жефаровић, ''Hristofor Zhefarovich'') was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of early pan-South Slavis ...
(d. 1753), and
Ivan Boldižar (1917–1986).
List of calligraphists
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Jovan the Serb of Kratovo (1526–1583), priest and scribe
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Zaharije Orfelin
Zaharije Orfelin ( sr-Cyrl, Захаријe Орфелин; 1726 – 19 January 1785) was a Serbs, Serbian polymath who lived and worked in the Austrian Monarchy and Republic of Venice, Venice.
Works
*''Pesan novosadelanuje za gradjanku go ...
(1720–1785), polymath
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Hristofor Žefarović
Hristofor Žefarović ( bg, Христофор Жефарович, sr-cyr, Христофор Жефаровић, ''Hristofor Zhefarovich'') was an 18th-century painter, engraver, writer and poet and a notable proponent of early pan-South Slavis ...
(d. 1753), polymath
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Ivan Boldižar (1917–1986)
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Vladislav Stanković
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Zoran Ilić
Zoran ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран) is a common South Slavic name, the masculine form of Zora, which means ''dawn, daybreak''. The name is especially common in Serbia, North Macedonia, Croatia and a little in Slovenia.
Notable people with this given na ...
, painter
See also
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Vyaz (Cyrillic calligraphy)
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First Belgrade Gymnasium
First Belgrade Gymnasium ( sr, Прва београдска гимназија, Prva beogradska gimnazija) is a gymnasium (Central European type of grammar school) with a long tradition, founded in 1839 in Belgrade, Serbia. Since 1938, it is sit ...
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*{{cite web, title=Raskršća, with Vladislav Stanković (Youtube video), publisher=RTS, language=Serbian
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