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KALENIC
Kalenic, with its graceful architecture and very lovely murals
paintings, ranks among the finest monuments not only of the Morava style,
but of Serbian art in general. Its patron was Lord Bogdan, a high official
at the court of Despot Stefan. The monastery church was built between 1407
and 1418.
Its exterior is very picturesque with its decorative arrangement of white
marble blocks and red bricks. Kalenic is also famous for its low-relief
ornamentations above the doors and windows which include birds, gryphons
and lions. Kalenic frescoes, delicate and harmonious in their colouring,
are highly reminiscent of their contemporaries in Russian painting,
especially
the work of Andrei Rublev.
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