Rosette – (National Museum Of Serbia) Previous Next


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Date: 1400

Museum: Museums of Serbia (Belgrade, Serbia)

Technique: Plastic

In the arrangement of Serbian churches of the late Middle Ages, rosettes, as independent units, had a special place in the wall decoration of buildings of the so-called Morava art school. It was created in a combination of Byzantine and Western elements where original forms and ways of execution were created, thus forming new entities in a special relationship between architecture and sculpture. They are distinguished by the fullness of form, colourful variety and specific dense and complex ornamentation where various types of geometric interweaving and stylised plant motifs in rhythmic shifts, representations of animals and rarely human figures play the main role. The buildings

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