Ktetor portraits of church dignitaries in Serbian post-Byzantine painting (Part two)

Abstract

The second part of this paper is dedicated to the ktetor portraits of church dignitaries in Serbian Post-Byzantine painting. It focuses on monastic ktetor portraits (hegoumenoi, hieromonks and monks), their vestments, discussing the state of monastic communities during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the introduction. The concluding remarks summarise the placement of ktetorial portraits, corporal rhetoric (proskynesis), insignia, haloes and portrait characteristics, as well as the categories of ktetorship (founding, restoration, donorship), and the imagery and eschatological ideas constructing the visual culture of clerical ktetorship in Serbian Post- Byzantine painting.