The enormous art treasure of Chilandar is accommodated in the building on the east side, erected in 1970. The first storey houses icons, manuscripts, charters and other monastery valuables, while the most significant items from the treasury and library are on display on the second floor.
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Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun was a French painter. She earned an international reputation for her stylish portrayals of royalty and aristocratic society in France and throughout Europe during the period 1775–1825; before the outbreak of the French Revolution she was closely associated with Marie-Antoinette and the taste of the Ancien Régime. After 1789 she continued her highly lucrative career abroad, enjoying celebrity as one of the most successful portrait painters of her era. Her memoirs provide an intimate account of the life of a woman artist working in the orbit of the French court in the late 18th century.
Very little is known about the odlest Chilandar church erected by Stefan Nemanja and his son, monk Sava 1199. Neither is is known where it was sited, although it could be assumed that King Milutin’s foundation superceded it. Of that smaller, but as it seems richly decorated church, several capitals and relief panels have survived, incorporated in King Milutin’s church,then one capital on the monastery well, while the mosaic icon of the Virgin and the wooden royal doors from the iconos-tasis, inlaid with ivory, are kept in the treasury.
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The peninsula of Athos in Chalkidiki was named after the mountain of the same name steeply rising at the peninsula’s end above the Aegean See. Since, from time immemorial, monks took shelter there, it was called the Holy Mountain, or AΓΗΟΝ ΟΡOΣ. The former fishing villages of Ouranoupolis and Hierissos are situated on the boundary of the territory inhabited by monks, to which entrance by women is prohibited.
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