Byzantine Frescoes

These frescoes from the medieval churches of Yugoslavia were painted between the 11th and the 15th centuries. At the beginning of this period Serbia was a province of the Byzantine Empire, and many of the paintings are the work of Byzantine craftsmen. But during the next two centuries there appears a native Serbian school of painting.As Byzantine influences waned, so the emotional qualities of reverence, sorrow and love become more apparent. The Serbian frescoes possess a beauty of line and colour and an intensity of religious feeling which places them among the great masterpieces of medieval art.