Obrenovac in the 19th century

church architecture, art and local customs of the 19th century in Obrenovac.

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About the project and design

- This is a brochure and map that are part of a project "Obrenovac in the 19th century" that has a goal to show art and architecture in the 19th century, one of Belgrade's municipalities.

-Обреновац (Serbian Cyrillic: Обреновац, pronounced [ɔbrɛ̌ːnɔv̞at͡s]) is a town and municipality located in Serbia at 44°40′ North, 20°13′ East. Its name stems from last name "Obrenović" which in turn stems from name "Obren" in the Serbian language. In 2011 the municipality had a total population of 71,419. Obrenovac is one of 17 municipalities that make up the greater Belgrade area.

Obrenovac is situated 30 km south-west of central Belgrade near bends of the river Sava to the north. The river Kolubara flows to the east of the town on its way to join the Sava.

Wikipedia

- It is designed map is made to represent the look of the map from that period. On it are positioned monasteries and churches of the period.

Brochure

-Brochure format is 210 x 147 mm. and has 24 pages.

-It contains nine texts about nine monasteries and churches from that period, each of these texts in the beginning of a stylized icon of the saint who bears the name.

at the edge of each left-side there is a symbol used in the iconography for framing icons or doors and windows. in the iconography of the period dominated by floral shapes as well as in the Byzantine style, is only so I took a triangular symbol, which is the Orthodox Church is considered a sign of the Holy Trinity, and a spiral in the middle of all cultures is symbolic of life and birth.

Number of pages are marked with Roman letters which is the beginning of the 20th century was a common practice in the church books in Serbia because they were then in Old Slavic. And the font for the titles of the period

-The central part of the booklet is set for photos of the monastery (and the photos are displayed in Obrenovcu as the namesake of the exhibition).

-Content is designed in the form Ex- libris of which is also in this period was the standard.

The icons of Saints

Serbian people are the only ones in the world that celebrates one year of one of the saints. He is considered the patron saint of the family. And each monastery or church bearing the name of one of the saints who is also the patron saint of the church.

Each saint represents in a special and strictly defined manner that is prescribed by the 9 th century church.

Like every other image and the icon is drawn first sketch. So I'm all icons first reduced to sketch and later the line vector drawing that I would connect tradition with modern standards and esthetically criteria.