Traditional engraving technique: “Centaur” detail from the ornaments of a Serbian medieval monasteryTehnika gravure – „Kentaur“ sa manastira Kalenic

Description

The engraving technique belongs to the old artistic craft, which means the technique of making a relief or engraving a certain representation in a hard and often flat surface. The engraving of art objects is based on a unique engraving. Unique engraving is performed on all materials: wood, stone, steel, copper, brass, glass, precious materials, plastics. The types of engraving are linear with texture and embossed. Here I present the Centaur detail from the ornaments of a Serbian medieval monastery. The relief decoration is also extremely interesting because its basis is a two-membered intertwined ribbon. Among the interesting things related to the Kalenic Monastery is certainly the fact that the Kalenic Monastery is one of the few Serbian medieval monasteries that has carved not only animal but also human figures above the window openings. Through this work, I have tried to convey and bring closer, above all, beauty, and symbolism the architecture of medieval Serbia as well as the beauty of the art of shaping volume in stone. The Kalenic Monastery is one of the few in terms of architecture that has reached a harmonious unity of architecture and decorative plastic, which is one of the most beautiful, I also tried to present through a detail from the facade of carved plastic Kalenica 15th century. I am connected with him because through this small research work I managed to show at least in part the richness and history of stone sculpture of Serbian medieval monasteries as well as the process of their creation.

Intention

The performance of the musicians from the north wall of Kalenica is unparalleled in Serbian, but also in the wider circle of medieval art of the Christian world. Although researchers have never agreed on which instrument this unusual creature plays, it seems both in appearance and in the way the griffin player plays that it is a lyre-string instrument played and sung with in the Middle Ages.

Engraving used to be much more applicable than it is now. But this form of application has gradually lost the importance and breadth of application due to the long process of learning this technique and the slow multiplication technique. Specifically in stone, engraving is performed in shallow relief by hand or with an electric motor machine, it can also be performed in high relief and in three-dimensional form. But this form of application has gradually lost the importance and breadth of application due to the long process of learning this technique and the slow multiplication technique.