THE CONTRIBUTION OF GABRIEL MILLET TO THE RESEARCH OF KING MILUTIN’S ENDOWMENTS

Gabriel Millet was one of the first university-educated researchers that studied Serbian medieval monuments in the early 20th century. Thanks to this French Byzantinist, those monuments were included in broader overviews of Christian art early on. Millet’s work primarily set solid academic foundations for the research of Serbian medieval architecture. The endowments of King Milutin, above all Staro Nagoričino and Gračanica, had a prominent place in those studies both in terms of their painted program and architecture. This paper aims to present and valorize Gabriel Millet’s contribution to their research and to draw attention to Millet’s significant body of photo documentation and field notes, which still remain largely uninvestigated.