Strahinja of Budimlje

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Strahinja of Budimlje (c. 1555-after 1620) was a Serbian priest and icon and fresco painter of the Byzantine style who lived and worked in the mid-sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

Strahinja of Budimlje is known by the work he did in the Piva Monastery, Đurđevi stupovi, [1] Church of St. Nicholas, Brezova (1619-1620), [2] Gradište Monastery, [3] [4] Morača Monastery, Reževići Monastery, Monastery of the Holy Trinity of Pljevlja (1595) and other monasteries and churches. [5] He was a prolific painter whose Byzantine style had Western influence. [6]

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