АРХИТЕКТУРА И ЖИВОПИС ЦРКВЕ СВЕТОГ АРХАНЂЕЛА МИХАИЛА У АРАНЂЕЛОВУ КОД ТРЕБИЊА
ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING IN CHURCH OF SAINT ARCHANGEL MICHAEL IN ARANĐELOVO NEAR TREBINJE

Summary/Abstract: The Church of St Archangel Michael in Arandjelovo was most probably built at the end of the 16th or at the beginning of the 17th century. Starting point for determining the time of its construction was the inscription engraved in the southern part of the entrance doorpost where the fact on death of the head of the district, Georgije, called Krnja, was noted down. The Church of St Archangel Michael is a simple one-ailed building with a semicircular apse on the east side, nartex and a bellcote on the western side, built probably in the 19th or early 20th century. Inside, the church is covered with a longitudinal half-sided vault that has two transverse reinforcing arches. Along the side ships of the naos and the nartex, there are deep arches resting on pilasters. In the naos, there are three arches and the middle one is the widest and slightly higher than other two, whereas along the sidewalls of the nartex only one arch is constructed. The church is covered with stone slabs. The frescoes in the church of St Arhangel Michael were painted shortly after the year of 1604. They present a synthesis of the Byzantine art tradition from the 14th century and so-called painting of Crete. Stylistic unevenness points to the work of several artists, probably three. The style of the artists who painted this church was based on Byzantine influences and, to a lesser extent, on the paintings of Crete, which is observed on the dark incarnation of the saint. Certain program and iconographic phenomena indicate that painters who decorated the church in Arandjelovo might be Greeks.

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