The Cycle of St. Nicholas in the Monumental Paintings of the Dubočica Monastery.
The Cycle of St. Nicholas in the Monumental Paintings of the Dubočica Monastery.

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this article is the cycle of St. Nicholas in the church dedicated to the same saint in the Dubočica Monastery near Pljevlja (Montenegro). The fresco paintings were completed on August 7, 1565 when the territories of the former Serbian state and Patriarchate of Peć were already integrated into the Ottoman Empire. The cycle in the Dubočica Monastery belongs to a small number of preserved cycles, which were created on the territory under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Church in the 16th century. The author describes the Dubočica frescoes damaged by the relocation of the church, which have not yet been covered in scholarly literature. The cycle of St. Nicholas, one of the most extensive preserved works of Serbian art from the Ottoman period, was painted in the narthex and consists of nineteen scenes two of which rarely appear within the Serbian context.

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