Simeon Lazović ( sr-Cyrl, Симеон Лазовић; c. 1745 - 1817) was a
Montenegrin Serb
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painter and one of the most famous icon painters of his time in the
Balkans
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.
Biography
Born in
Bijelo Polje
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, the priest Simeon Lazović and his son Aleksije are best known for having painted the icons of the altar screens (iconostases) and the walls of St. Dimitrius and St. Nicholas Serbian Orthodox chapels in
Kosovo
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. Most of the icons belong to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the best among them were done by Simeon Lazović at the end of the eighteenth century. His style continued the tradition of Byzantine painting. He is the father of the painter
Aleksije Lazović.
Works
Among the works painted by Simeon Lazović are icons preserved in the wooden church of
Kućani in 1780 and in the church of
Sirogojno in 1764 in the Zlatibor Mountains. He also worked at the iconostasis of the
Klisura Monastery in the
Church of St. Achillius in
Arilje
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or that of the
Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Pljevlja
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With his son Aleksije, he painted the iconostases of both Saint Demetrius and Saint Nicolas chapels at the Dečani monastery (Kosovo) and the iconostasis of the
Savina monastery church near
Herceg Novi
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in
Boka Kotorska
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(Montenegro) in 1795. Also, he is the author of the 1805 iconostasis and frescoes for the
Church of St. Nicholas in Brezova,
and many more throughout Dalmatia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
See also
*
Aleksije Lazović
*
List of painters from Serbia
This is a list of notable Serbian painters.
A
* Nikola Aleksić (1808–1873)
* Dimitrije Avramović (1815–1855)
* Ljubomir Aleksandrović (1828–1890)
* Stevan Aleksić (1876–1923)
* Dragomir Arambašić (1881–1945)
* Stojan Aralica ...
References
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18th-century Serbian painters
18th-century male artists
People from Bijelo Polje
Serbs of Montenegro
1740s births
1817 deaths