Fresco Gallery
The Fresco Gallery of the National Museum in Belgrade is unique in its function and content, gathering, preserving, and presenting in one place the highest achievements of Serbian medieval and Byzantine art. The gallery houses copies of frescoes and casts of sculptures that testify to the unique and significant art of wall painting, icon painting, miniature painting, and architecture created in the territory of medieval Serbia and neighboring Balkan countries, with many copies originating from monuments that are now destroyed or endangered.
The first initiative to copy frescoes with the aim of founding a Fresco Museum, as well as organizing exhibitions abroad, was initiated by the Committee for Culture and Arts of the Government of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia in 1947. The initiative resulted in the grand Exhibition of Yugoslav Medieval Art in 1950 at the Chaillot Palace in Paris. The exhibition featured 160 copies of frescoes and 105 casts of sculptures. After the exhibition ended and the exhibits returned to the country, the Fresco Gallery was opened on February 1, 1953, as the second museum of its kind in the world.
Our company successfully carried out conservation and restoration works on the arrangement and revitalization of the Fresco Gallery in Belgrade, with a special focus on the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage.
Year:
2015-2016Location:
Belgrade, SERBIALocation:
Belgrade, SERBIAConstruction Period:
2015-2016Client:
National Museum in Belgrade