At
the end of June 2017, in addition to the permanent exhibition of icons from the
world-renown Ohrid collection that is exhibited in the upper space, in the
lower space of the Icon Gallery-Ohrid, another part of the rich heritage from
the collections of the NI Institute and Museum-Ohrid was put on display.
It
is about twenty-two fresco-copies with the portraits and figures of the Slavic
Enlighteners SS Clement and Naum of Ohrid, but also SS Cyril and Methodius and
other saints from the churches in Macedonia and neighboring countries, such as
Serbia and Kosovo, but also one from Rome, Italy. The copies were made mostly
in 1966 and 1980, on the occasion of the celebration of the 1050th anniversary
of the death of St. Clement of Ohrid (1966) and the opening of the Museum of the
Slavic Literature in Ohrid (1980) by the most famous copysts of that time,
Dragomir Jashovic, Zdenka Zhivkovic, Nikola Conev and others. Last year (2016),
most of these frescoes were exhibited at the exhibition "St. Clement of
Ohrid and his representations in fine arts" at the Papal University of
Urbaniana in the Vatican, as well as at two other exhibitions in Skopje and
Ohrid.
In
addition to the frescoes, in the framework of this exhibition, in five glass showcases
there are several church embroideries and many other various liturgical
objects, among which there are reliquaries, icon lamps, parts of revetments of
icons, as well as one tetraevangelion with beautifully made silver cover, with
the aim to enrich the content and diversity of the objects presented to the visitors
of the Icon Gallery-Ohrid. All items are pre-conserved and prepared for
presentation.
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| Look at the exhibition |
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| Two embroidered crosses, parts of sakkos or omophorion and a reliquary from the 19th century |
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| Two embroidered crosses, parts of sakkos or omophorion and a reliquary from the 11th century |
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Embroidered podea with a representation of the Presentation of the Virgin in a temple and two icon lamps |
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| View of the showcases |
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| Tetraevangelion with silver covers from 1769 and a silver icon lamp |
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| Parts (aureoles and hands) of revetments of icons from 18th and 19th centuries |
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