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

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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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, 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

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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 Aleksije Lazović (; 1774–1837) was a painter from modern-day Montenegro. He is particularly famous for his icons. Biography Aleksije Lazović was born in Bijelo Polje, Montenegro, to Serbian parents; the son of the painter Simeon Lazović. Amo ...

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Among the works painted by Simeon Lazović are icons preserved in the wooden church of Kućani in 1780 and in the church of

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in 1764 in the Zlatibor Mountains. He also worked at the iconostasis of the Klisura Monastery in the Church of St. Achillius in

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or that of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Pljevlja. 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

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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.

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