Amvrosije Janković

{{short description|Serbian painter-iconographer.}}

Ambrozije or Amvrosije Janković ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Амброзије/Амвросије Јанковић}}; born around 1730 in Sečuj, a village in Hungary) was a Serbian painter-iconographer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=Amvrosije+Jankovic|title=Amvrosije Jankovic - Google Search|website=www.google.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nBTWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia|title=Српско барокно сликарство|first=Мирослав|last=Тимотијевић|date=September 30, 1996|publisher=Матица српска Оделење за ликовне уметности|via=Google Books}}

Life and work

He was educated at Szentendre in the Seminary of Bishop Vasilije Dimitrijević (1728-1748) of the Eparchy of Buda and then went to study art at the atelier of Jov Vasilijevič in Sremski Karlovci.

In 1760 he became a monk and settled in the Rakovac Monastery, located in Srem,{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljMtAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia|title=The monasteries of the Fruška Gora|first1=Branka|last1=Kulić|first2=Nedeljka|last2=Srećkov|date=September 30, 1994|publisher=Prometej|via=Google Books}} where he wrote that he was an artist and icon painter and that in 1760 he received 6 ducats in prize money for his work. He learned his art under the tutelage of Baroque painter Jov Vasiljevič who was the court painter of Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović Šakabenta.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nBTWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia|title=Српско барокно сликарство|first=Мирослав|last=Тимотијевић|date=September 30, 1996|publisher=Матица српска Оделење за ликовне уметности|via=Google Books}} In the church in Kamenica he painted in 1760, the Annunciation, Christ and the Mother of God, the Coronation of the Mother of God, and the Hymn of the Mother of God: O Tebje Raduljetsja. Afterward, he worked at Vukovar and Rakovica Monastery, his most important work.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljMtAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia|title=The monasteries of the Fruška Gora|first1=Branka|last1=Kulić|first2=Nedeljka|last2=Srećkov|date=September 30, 1994|publisher=Prometej|via=Google Books}}

It is known that in late 1771 he started painting in the dining room of the Vrdnik Monastery on the theme of the Battle of Kosovo,{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kJmfAAAAMAAJ&q=Jankovic|title=Zbornik|first=Muzej primenjene umetnosti (Belgrade|last=Serbia)|date=September 30, 1955|via=Google Books}} which he painted and finished in 1776 after more than four years of work.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3UNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia|title=La Yougoslavie inconnue: itinéraires archéologiques|first=Georges|last=Pillement|date=September 30, 1967|publisher=B. Grasset|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=75EmBAAAQBAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA22|title=ИЗМЕЂУ : култура одевања између Истока и Запада : зборник 64. годишње конференције, 25-30. септембар 2011.: In Between : culture of dress between the East and the West : proceedings of the 64th Annual Conference, September 25-30, 2011|first=Мирјана М.|last=Менковић|date=March 1, 2013|publisher=Etnografski muzej u Beogradu|isbn=9788678910616|via=Google Books}} It is one of the most interesting works of the last of monk-painters, of this new style.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3UNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia|title=La Yougoslavie inconnue: itinéraires archéologiques|first=Georges|last=Pillement|date=September 30, 1967|publisher=B. Grasset|via=Google Books}}

Stylistically Ambrozije Janković's frescoes have both the elements of medieval and Baroque painting, giving him an honored place in the line of great Serbian artists Jakov Orfelin, Zaharije Orfelin, Teodor Kračun, Teodor Ilić Češljar and other academy-educated painters of that time.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIkjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Amvrosije+Jankovi%C4%87%22+-wikipedia|title=Barok|first=Marjana|last=Lipoglavšek|date=September 30, 1985|publisher=Jugoslavija|via=Google Books}}

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