Aleksije Lazović (; 1774–1837) was a painter from modern-day

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. He is particularly famous for his icons.

Biography

Aleksije Lazović was born in

Bijelo Polje Bijelo Polje (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бијело Поље, ) is a town located in the Northern Montenegro, Northern Region of Montenegro, situated along Lim (river), Lim River. It has an urban population of 12,900 (2011 census). It is the ad ...

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, to Serbian parents; the son of the painter

Simeon Lazović Simeon Lazović ( sr-Cyrl, Симеон Лазовић; c. 1745 – 1817) was a Montenegrin Serb painter and one of the most famous icon painters of his time in the Balkans. Biography Born in Bijelo Polje in Montenegro, the priest Simeon Lazovi� ...

. Among the works painted by Aleksije Lazović is the iconostasis of the Church of the Dormition-of-the-Mother-of-God at the

Reževići Monastery The Reževići Monastery () is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Katun Reževići village between Budva and Petrovac in modern-day Montenegro. The monastery has two churches. According to a local legend, the 'Church of the Dormitio ...

, near Petrovac na Moru or the Uspanie Bogomatere Church in Šibenik, Croatia. With his father, he painted the iconostasis of Saint Demetrius and Saint Nicholas chapels at the Dečani monastery in Kosovo and the iconostasis of the Savina monastery church near

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. He is also the author of an icon of the Virgin, painted in 1806 and in imitation of a painting attributed to Saint Luke; this work is preserved in the Museum Treasury of the

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. Works by Aleksije Lazović are also preserved in the churches of Dobroselica,

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and Bela Reka on the

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mountains, and the

iconostasis In Eastern Christianity, an iconostasis () 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 that can be placed anywhere withi ...

he painted in the Monastery of Nikoljac in Bijelo Polje in 1837. The iconostases of Dečani are the most grandiose works and most beautiful of Simeon and Alexis Lazović who, between 1764 and 1837, executed numerous iconostasis in churches in

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, Montenegro,

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and

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. Being given their conceptions of pictorial art, these painters of icons were the continuators of iconography's post-Byzantine tradition, adapting models to the taste of their customers by modernizing them, that is, using the post-Baroque form practiced by engravers and painters who worked the territory subject to the spiritual authority of the

Metropolitanate of Karlovci The Metropolitanate of Karlovci () was a metropolitanate of the Eastern Orthodox Church that existed in the Habsburg monarchy between 1708 and 1848. Between 1708 and 1713, it was known as the Metropolitanate of Krušedol Monastery, Krušedol, ...

. The iconostasis of the Dečani Monastery, to a large extent, complements the image of the diverse activity of the painters Lazović and allows us to judge with more objectivity their work which translates faithfully the social and spiritual conditions in which they have lived and displayed their talents.

Gallery

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Saint Sava Saint Sava (, ; Old Church Slavonic: ; Glagolitic: ; ; 1169 or 1174 – 14 January 1235/6), known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbs, Serbian prince and Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox monk, abbot of Studenica Monastery, Studeni ...

, Saint Symeon and

Stefan the First-Crowned Stefan Nemanjić ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Немањић, ), known as Stefan the First-Crowned (, ; – 24 September 1228), was the Grand Prince of Serbia from 1196 and the King of Serbia from 1217 until his death in 1228. He was the first Se ...

'', 1819 File:Aleksije Lazović - Christ, emperor of emperors and great archpriest, 1819.jpg, ''Christ, emperor of emperors and great archpriest'', 1819

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