Gradište Monastery is inBuljarica, Montenegro, not far fromPetrovac na Moru. Gradište was originally a medieval inn of the old Serbian Empire. It also was affiliated withKosovo'sVisoki Dečani Monastery. Founded in 1116, the monastery consists of three churches and a dormitory. The three churches are St. Nicholas', built in 1610; the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God, whose frescoes date from 1620s; andSaint Sava's, both the former built in 1855 and the latter built in the early 1500s.
Gradište Monastery is inBuljarica, Montenegro,[1][2] not far fromPetrovac na Moru.[3] LikeReževići Monastery, Gradište was originally a medieval inn of the old Serbian Empire Zeta. It also was affiliated withKosovo'sVisoki Dečani Monastery. Founded in 1116, Gradište was mentioned in a document from the time of KingMilutin in 1307. The monastery buildings comprise a dormitory building and three churches.[4] The three churches are St. Nicholas', built in 1610; the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God, whose frescoes date from 1620s; andSaint Sava's, both the former built in 1855 and the latter built in the early 1500s.[5][6] Saint Sava Church houses aniconostasis painted in 1864 by the Greek icon painter Nicholas Aspiotis, and an unusual painting of St Christopher with an animal head.[7][8]
The Church of St Nicholas contains frescoes painted in 1619–1620.[9] The cycle is a historiography of St George, and contains scenes identified in 1960 by Veljko Đurić as Saint George Confessing Christianity, The Whipping of Saint George, and The Torture of Saint George on a Wheel.[10] At the time of Đurić's work, the frescoes were uncleaned. Later cleaning and study after the frescoes were damaged in an earthquake revealed a further scene, identified by Bojan Popović as Deliverance from the Limestone Quarry.[11] Aleksandar Čilikov identified two more scenes from the Saint George cycle that were too fragmented to identify.[12]
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