НОВИ ПРИЛОЗИ ЗА ИСТОРИЈАТА И ЖИВОПИСОТ НА ЦРКВАТА БОГОРОДИЦА ПЕРИВЛЕПТА (СВ. КЛИМЕНТ) ВО ОХРИД
NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN PERIVLEPTA (ST. KLIMENT) IN OHRID

Summary/Abstract: 1. Identification and Chronology of the Wall Paintings at the Northern Entrance Considering that the frescoes at the Ohrid church Peribleptos (St. Clement) have not been studied sufficiently, the author of these contributions presents his views on the errors of the dating and identification of the individuals in the northern, western and southern parts of the church entrance. He indicates that the painting in the northern wing of the facade of the Chapel of St. Gregory the Theologian was not that of the Sebastokrator Volkašin; then, that there was never an archbishop in Deabolis and that Gregory of Deabolis should never be referred to as “Archbishop of Ohrid”. He highlights the fact that the inscription above the northern entrance actually refers to the Prooimion of the "Chosen Duchess”, pictorially transposed into the composition of the Siege of Constantinople, as was the case of St. Peter in Prespa, painted around the same time as the frescoes at Peribleptos. 2. The Heavenly Court on the Western Wall of Peribleptos In the western part of the entrance there is a large 16th-century depiction of the Last Judgment, but underneath there is still a layer of a 14th-century wall painting. Earlier researchers believed that the painting in this older layer is a depiction of the Last Judgment as well. However, on a large fragment at the southern end of the west entrance there is a figure from the older layer, which in our view depicts the Holy Warrior St. Theodore Stratelates. This very fragment, that is, the whole figure directed towards the center of the older layer, indicates that it portrayed the great scene of the Heavenly Court, depicted in the same place at the Zaum church as well. I pointed to this fact to Prof. Voja Đurić too. As soon as adequate conservation conditions are provided, we believe that the first layer underneath the current Last Judgment dating from the 16th century will be revealed. 3. Notes on the Wall Painting in the South Wing of the Church of the Holy Mother of God Peribleptos The frescoes in the southern wing of Peribleptos have been damaged most severely by whitewashing, as well as by the weather conditions typical for this side of the church. There are still no reliable data to whom the southern chapel next to the altar was dedicated since the space for the donor’s inscription is empty. Inside the chapel there are no remains from the figure of St. Nicholas, to whom it is believed that the chapel was dedicated. The author of this contribution assumes that one of the figures dressed in a nobleman’s vestments on the east end of the south wall facing in prayer towards the Holy Mother of God might have been Lord Nicholas, the eldest son of Sebastokrator Branko, i.e. the eldest brother of Grgur and Vuk. He is known to have been married to the sister of Volkašin and Uglješa, and to have become a monk (Radohna, Roman) after his wife’s death, spending the rest of his life on Mount Athos as the Megaloschemos Gerasimos.

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