Career
Mitrofanović, a monk, had trained at the Hilandar monastery workshop, situated on Mount Athos, before coming to Montenegro where he worked on frecoes in the Morača monastery. Serbian Patriarch Pajsije initiated the restoration of the old 13thand 14th-century churches of the Patriarchate of Peć in 1620. All the domes of the churches were covered with lead, the Church of Saint Demetrius was practically rebuilt, and almost half of the frescoes were restored by Mitrofanović, giving them a new layer.
The major part of the early 17th-century frescoes in the church is found in the altar and in the space between the cupola.
Retaining the old subjects and respecting the preceding compositional solutions, Mitrofanović tended to approach the artistic attitude of master painter John"s from the 14th century retaining at the same time his own warmer colouring.
