Georgije Mitrofanović

Georgije Mitrofanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Георгије Митрофановић; c. 1550–c. 1630) was a Serbian Orthodox monk and painter, remembered best for his work on the Morača monastery church and the frescoes (wall paintings) inside the Krupa monastery church. Mitrofanović, a monk, had trained at the Hilandar monastery workshop, situated on Mount Athos, before coming to Montenegro where he worked on frecoes in the Morača monastery.

Serbian Patriarch Pajsije initiated the restoration of the old 13th- and 14th-century churches of the Patriarchate of Peć in 1620. All the domes of the churches were covered with lead, the Church of St. Demetrius was practically rebuilt, and almost half of the frescoes were restored by Mitrofanović, giving them a new layer. The major part of the early 17th-century frescoes in the church is found in the altar and in the space between the cupola. Retaining the old subjects and respecting the preceding compositional solutions, Mitrofanović tended to approach the artistic attitude of master painter John's from the 14th century retaining at the same time his own warmer colouring.

Work

• The icon of Saints Demetrius, George, Artemius and Procopius, at Hilandar Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece, 1618
• The fresco of Patriarch Jovan, 1619-1620
• The icon of Annunciation. Centre door of an iconostasis of Saint Tryphon Church in Hilandar Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece, 1621