Mileševa monastery
ninaniki | 11 Jun, 2016 14:35Mileševa is a Serbian Orthodox monastery located near Prijepolje, in southwest Serbia. It was founded by King Vladislav, in the years between 1234 and 1236. The church has frescoes by the most skillful artists of that time, including one of the most famous in Serbian culture, the "White Angel", which depicts an angel on Christ's grave. White Angel is a detail of one of the best known frescoes in Serbian culture in the Mileševa monastery. Considered one of the most beautiful works of Serbian and Europian art from the High Middle Ages, this fresco is considered to be one of the great achievements in Europian painting. In the 16th century, the White Angel was over-painted with another fresco, and so was hidden until the 20th century when the fresco was restored. A picture of the White Angel of Mileševa was sent as a message from Europe to America, as a symbol of peace and civilization.
At the earlier royal foundations, monasteries, the church of Mileševa was built in the style of Raška. This style was characterized by the Romanesque type of building. Because of the tomb of St. Sava, Mileševa acquired enormous prestige in the eyes of the Serbian nation, becoming a center of pilgrimage, while under the Turkish rule it was a source of hope and courage for the enslaved people. In order to suppress the spiritual ascendancy of St. Sava the Turks away his relics from the Monastery of Mileševa and burnt it on the state of Vračar in Belgrade.
Mileševa was declared Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1979, and it is protected by Republic of Serbia.
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