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The
Icon
Gallery-Ohrid
is
a
part
of
the
Ni
Institute
for
Protection
of
Cultural
Monuments
and
Museum-Ohrid
In
which
permanent
exhibition
exposed
the
most
significant
samples
of
icons,
a
total
of
37,
of
which
6
double-sided
or
bilateral.
Chronological
belonging
of
the
artworks
is
from
the
middle
of
the
11th
until
the
middle
of
the
19th
century.
Ohrid
icon
collection,
next
to
the
Sinai
collection
from
the
monastery
of
St.
Catherine,
the
collection
from
Mt.
Athos
and
Russian
icons,
is
one
of
the
most
valuable
and
most
significant
collections
of
icons
in
the
world.
Most
of
them
have
been
painted
in
the
Ohrid
painting
workshops,
and
some
of
the
icons
in
the
past
centuries,
as
gifts
for
the
Ohrid
churches,
were
brought
from
Constantinople
or
Salonika
and
are
characterized
by
an
exceptional
colorist
solutions,
grace
and
beauty
of
the
painting.
The
high
artistic
quality,
the
historical
and
cultural
meaning,
as
well
as
the
high
degree
of
preservation
of
the
icons
of
this
collection,
in
particular
the
most
valuable
and
most
beautiful
samples
from
the
11th
to
the
14th
century,
which
represent
a
real
masterpieces
of
the
Byzantine
panel
painting,
contributed
they,
both
with
some
samples
from
the
post
Byzantine
period
and
the
period
of
the
Revival,
to
be
exhibited
in
the
permanent
exhibition
that
is
considered
one
of
the
very
few
such
collections
in
the
world.
Ohrid
icons
represent
significant
testimonials
about
the
significance
and
role
of
the
city
of
Ohrid
as
religious,
cultural
and
artistic
center
within
the
Byzantine
Empire,
the
Serbian
medieval
state
and
the
Ottoman
Empire,
as
well
as
its
relations
with
other
developed
cultural
and
artistic
centers
in
the
first
row
of
the
Constantinople
and
Salonika.
Through
the
icons
of
this
collection
one
can
follow
the
development
of
the
icon
painting
in
the
period
of
nearly
one
thousand
years,
from
the
middle
of
the
11th
until
the
mid-nineteenth
century,
and
different
time
epochs
have
left
their
chronological
and
stylistic
features
on
some
of
them.
For
the
first
time,
the
icons
from
the
Ohrid
collection
were
exhibited
in
the
outer
narthex
of
the
church
of
the
Holy
Virgin
Peribleptos
in
1961
on
the
occasion
of
the
12th
Byzantologist's
Congress
that
took
place
in
Ohrid.
In
the
period
between
1981
and
1983,
the
building
located
in
the
courtyard
of
the
church,
opposite
its
entrance,
was
reconstructed
and
revitalized
into
a
modern
gallery
of
icons
where
the
collection
is
located
still
today,
enabling
in
this
way
the
most
beautiful
icons
from
this
collection
to
be
available
to
all
medieval
art
lovers
and
numerous
explorers
and
scientists.
In
2000,
on
the
occasion
of
the
great
jubilee
of
Christianity,
the
Icon
Gallery-Ohrid
was
readapted
with
a
new
concept
of
the
exhibition
and
modernization
of
the
spatial,
security
and
microclimate
conditions.
Most
of
the
icons
and
other
objects
of
the
collection
(especially
those
of
the
permanent
exhibition
and
all
others
that
have
been
displayed
in
various
occasions)
are
restored
in
accordance
with
the
principles
and
rules
for
the
conservation
and
protection
of
cultural
heritage.
Besides
the
permanent
exhibition
in
the
Icon
Gallery-Ohrid,
a
large
number
of
icons
from
the
collection
as
well
as
some
other
items
from
it
have
been
exhibited
so
far
at
numerous
temporary
exhibitions
in
the
country
and
abroad.
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