Jovan Zograf
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Metroploitan Jovan Zograf also known as Jovan of Gramosta [1](16th century) was one of the most prominent icon painters in Old Serbia during the height of Ottoman occupation. He was most active between 1534 and 1542.
Jovan was the son of the priest Teodor of Gramosta, a village in the Gramos mountain range. Jovan Zograf later became the metropolitan of Prilep[2].
Considered one of the most prominent painters from the time of Pavle I, Serbian Patriarch, Jovan was a contemporary of Georgije Mitrofanović and Onufri. Jovan formed the traditions of the older Kostur painting. Jovan Zograf activity is followed between 1534 and 1542, from Kostur to the old area Železnik, with the largest production in the monasteries Sveti Jovan Prodrom in Slepče and the Sveti. Nikola in Toplica. Jovan also worked in the neighboring villages of Sloeshtica and Buchin. He had a painting studio and followers of monks in the Slepče monastery. His signature is evident in Greek on the margins of the throne icon Jesus Christ Sotir (1534-1535). He is a painter with high artistic qualities, comparable to the classical paleological painting, and a good connoisseur of dogmatic.
The endowment of the Monastery of Zrze was cared for by his brother Makarije Zograf until it was transferred to Constantine, the village kmet (head).[3]
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