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Studenica monastery
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How it came to be
Studenica was founded in the late 12th century by Stefan Nemanja, founder of the medieval Serbian state. The first works were finished by spring 1196, when Nemanja abdicated and became a monk here. He died at Hilandar in 1199, and his son Sava brought his remains back to Studenica.
The white marble Church of the Virgin, blending Romanesque and Byzantine styles, became the model for the Raška school; its wall paintings date from 1208-09. Sava wrote the first literary work in Serbian here and in 1219 won independence for the Serbian Orthodox Church. In 1314 King Milutin built the King's Church, where the Thessaloniki painters Michael and Eutychius painted the life of the Virgin.
After the last medieval Serbian state fell in 1459 the monastery was often attacked, and the frescoes of the Church of the Virgin were repainted in 1569. The largest and richest of Serbia's Orthodox monasteries was inscribed in 1986.
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