Janko Mihailović Moler (in Cyrillic Serbian: Јанко Михаиловић Молер;
Negrišori,
Ottoman Empire
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, 1792 - Negrišori,
Principality of Serbia
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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 () 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 ...
of the
Serbian Orthodox Church
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in
Ježevica Monastery, the Orthodox church in Guča, the church of
Žiča
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monastery, the monastery and the wooden church of
Dobroselica, on the
Zlatibor
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mountains. He also painted the iconostasis in the church in the village
Prilipac near
Požega.
With his son Sreten Protić, he painted the iconostasis of the Church of the Holy Trinity in the village of
Bjeluša, near
Arilje, in 1831, and the Church of St. John the Baptist in
Gorobilje.
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 ]
Gallery
Wiki Šumadija I Gospodar Jovanov konak 060.jpg, Coat of arms of the Obrenović dynasty
Manastir jezevica4.JPG, Iconostasis in Ježevica Monastery
Црква брвнара у Доброселици1.jpg, Iconostasis in the wooden church of Dobroselica
Crkva u Prilipcu 19.jpg, Iconostasis in church of Prilipac
See also
*
List of painters from Serbia
*
Serbian art
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moler, Janko Mihailovic
1792 births
1853 deaths
People from Lučani
Serbian Orthodox clergy
19th-century Serbian male artists
19th-century Serbian painters
Serbian male painters
Serbian portrait painters