КАМЕНАТА ПЛАСТИКА ОД ЦРКВАТА СВ. НИКОЛА ВО С. ВЕВЧАНИ – АНАЛИЗА И СЕМИОТИЧКИ ТОЛКУВАЊА
THE STONE RELIEFS FROM THE CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS IN VEVČANI – ANALYSIS AND SEMIOTIC INTERPRETATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The church of St. Nicholas, built in 1834 in the village of Vevčani, region of Struga, is a representative of the 19th century renaissance architecture in Macedonia and its predominant architectural typology. Its remarkable architecture, masonry craftsmanship and stone relief decorations, as well as its interior design and frescopainting, speak of an ambitious founder despite the rural setting in which it was erected, as a true master-piece of the best and most famous architects and painters available at the moment. In that context, it does not come as a surprise that the stone reliefs carry ancient symbolic representations, such as several types of crosses, fourleaf clovers, hexagrams, solar discs, cherubim, etc. These motifs, inspired by byzantine and early Christian architecture of the region, are rarely found in contemporary monuments and appear in the decorative ensemble of the church of St. Nicholas in Vevčani as a direct influence of the Mediterranean, Romanic and Gothic architecture which its builders had an opportunity to observe, absorb and transform in their architectural vocabulary.

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