Frescoes by Stefan Tenecki

Stefan Tenecki (Cyrillic: Стефан Тенецки ) is an icon painter Serbian or Aromanian the eighteenth century. A prolific artist, he worked in Vojvodina, Hungary and Romania.It is considered the first painter to have Romanian Serbo-acclimatised in those areas influenced by the Baroque Byzantine painting from the West.


Stefan Tenecki came to settle in Arad in 1746, where he lived at No. 3 in the Bishop Street (now 10, Rue Nicolae Balcescu). He died in Certege in the Judet Alba, near Campeni and has frescoed the Romanian Greek Catholic church of this village.


Some Works

Romania

* The iconostasis of the Cathedral of Arad;
* 1765: the iconostasis of the cathedral Romanian Greek Catholic "Holy Trinity" of Blaj, the largest in Romania;


Vojvodina

* 1752: the iconostasis of the church of St. Stefan Dečanski Vilovo;
* The iconostasis of the Church of the Ascension of Our Lord in Ruma ;
* Frescoes in the church of the monastery of Krušedol as the Circumcision of Christ.

Stefan Tenecki - Стефан Тенецки

Stefan Tenecki

Epiphany and 3 Serbian Saints

1766

The long life and creative productivity of Stefan Tenecki, probaly born in the Second half of the 18th century, lasted throught the second half of the century.Owing to Tenecki's aristocratic pedigree from Lipova, his industriousness and the qualities of his paintings, he soon became a painter to the Arad Bishops Isaija Antonovic, Sinesija Zivanovic and Pahomije Knezevic.Moreover, he was senator in the municipal council of Arad, in which status he portrayed himself in what would become the first self-portrait in Serbian painting.The Family home in Arad and his loyalty to that town did not lessen his mobility, and he was willing to work on a great number of commissions from Fruska Gora and Banat to Transylvania in the Carpathian Mountains.

From:
Three Century of Serbian Painting, Miodrag Jovanovic