The icon St. Gjorgji

From the middle ages, the oldest iconographic work of art in Struga is the icon St. Gjorgji (1267 g.), from the church by the same name. In it, the entire figure of the patron of the distinguished Struga church, with a sword and an spear in his hands is painted. The person connected with the commencement of the church is the Ohrid emissary, the deacon Jovan, one of the most prominent figures in the organization of the artistic works in the southwestern Macedonia towards the third quarter of the 13th century. Painted with an exceptional feeling of delicate colorist nuancing, this icon radiates an impressive beauty of the face, painted in a subdued gamut through which, from the ochre foundation, the red and white accents sparkle. The modeling of St. Gjorgjija, the graphicism, very commonly present in the previous or the contemporary works of art, is not present here, which makes this icon one of the most famous and most valuable ones.

At the reverse of the icon an inscription is found which mentions that author of this icon with the depiction of the Holy Warrior Gjorgjija is the zograph Jovan, and that it was ordered by Jovan - a high-rank official of the Ohrid Archbishop of that time Constantine Kabasila.

G. Angelicin - Zura

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