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the Museum of Applied Art has the pleasure to invite you
to the Grand Opening of the exhibition
Author Dušan Milovanović
The exhibition will be opened by Academician Dinko Davidov
Exhibition architect: Ivan Mangov
Museological treatment of varied material discovered by the team members followed the long-standing research and the creation of systematic inventory. The results will be published, in a systematic order, as separate volumes, in years to come. The present, first volume can be understood as introductory, as it contains the review of items that should help us understand Chilandar material, those precious, inestimable, examples of the applied art as well as simple objects for day-to-day use.
The exhibition Treasuries of Chilandar Monastery consists of several segments:
- documentary, comparative, section dealing with the treasuries of Chilandar along with the material in Museum’s collections related to the Monastery either by style, time period or some other characteristic;
- segment featuring photographs of the Monastery and its ambience;
- special segment dedicated to the reconstruction of Chilandar;
- original items from Holy Mountain and Chilandar.
The exhibition features sacral objects from Chilandar and Holy Mountain, as well, that found their way to cultural institutions in Serbia thanking to various historic circumstances. Ten manuscripts belong to these (gospels, menaions and corpuses) from Chilandar kept in Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, The National Library of Serbia and The Historic Museum of Serbia. There are also some of the most precious objects from the collections of the Museum of Applied Art, The National Museum, and other institutions, as well as valuable collection of icons from the Legacy of King Peter I at Oplenac. It contains items that were gifts made by monks from Chilandar and other monasteries at Holy Mountain, to King Peter I on his coronation and during his reign, as well as during the reign of King Alexander. Objects featured at the exhibition belong to the highest category of Serbian cultural and artistic heritage.
The exhibition was supported by The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.
Restoration of Chilandar
2008 Photographed by Ivan Mangov
Homilies of Gregory the Theologian
Chilandar, beginning of the 15th century Paper 250 x 355 mm; 325 leaves MSPC, Belgrade, Inv. No. 119
Saint Sava and Saint Simeon
Chilandar, 1818 Author monk Arsenius Copperplate Plate: 320 x 460 mm Plate – Chilandar; print – NLS, Belgrade
Encolpion
Chilandar – icons; Thessaloniki, end of 17th century - beginning of 18th century – metalwork Wood (plum tree) – carving; silver, forging, stamping, engraving, gold plate; Bohemian garnets, polishing Diameter: 83 mm MAA, Belgrade, Inv. No. 2696
Cross, hand-held, for veneration
Mount Athos, end of the 14th – beginning of the 16th century Wood (plum wood), carved Height – 170 mm; width – 82 mm; thickness – 26 mm MAA, Belgrade, Inv. No. 1683
Cross - on the holy table
Mount Athos, end of 16th century – cross; Prizren, mid-18th century – metalwork Wood (cypress); silver, cast, forged, granulated, filigree; glass paste, polished Height – 313 mm; width – 313 mm MAA, Belgrade, Inv. No. 424
Icon, diptych, portable (2 tablets)
Chilandar, end of 17th – beginning of 18th century wood (olive), carving, openwork 98 mm x 115 mm MAA, Belgrade, Inv. No. 4090 and 4091
Icon, dyptich, portable
Chilandar – icon; Thessaloniki, 1777 – metalwork Wood (olive), carving; silver, casting, forging, engraving filigree Height 82 mm, width 84 mm MAA, Belgrade, Inv. No. 9796
Icon of St. Demetrios
Chilandar (?), end of 14th – beginning of 15th century Moravska painting school Wood, tempera 34.3 cm x 26.5 cm MAA,Belgrade, Inv. No. 1351
Icon of Sts. Sava and Simeon
Longin (?) Tempera on board 326 x 260 mm NM, Belgrade, Inv. No. 2050
Altar doors
Serbia, Srem, first half of the 18th century Egg tempera on board 1235 x 670 x 280 mm NM, Belgrade, Inv. No. 3308, 3309, 3310, 3311, 3312, 3313
Icon of Saint Sava of Serbia and Saint Simeon the Myrrh-gusher
Mount Athos, 1903 Russian icon painting atelier Wood; egg tempera 522 x 718 mm Endowment of King Peter I at Oplenac, Topola, Inv. No. 25
Chilandar beneath snow, before fire damage
2004 Photographed by Father Dositej
Accompanying exhibitions in Museum’s Jade Gallery:
Dreams of Chilandar – Art Jewellery, Slavoljub Galić Djani
Shining – Wall Reliefs, Zoran Turkan
Thursday, 6 November 2008 at 8:00 p.m.
Exhibitions will be open to public until 30 November 2008
Inscription – group exhibition of Art Photographs: Momčilo Vuković, Rajko Karišić, Tomislav Peternek, Milinko Stefanović, Dragan S. Tanasijević
Thursday, 4 December 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Exhibitions will be open to public until 15 January 2009
