Emanuil Manojlo Antonoviàalso spelled Emanuel Antonovich (Serbian Cyrillic: ÃÂüðýÃÂøû ÃÂðýþÃÂûþ ÃÂýÃÂþýþòøÃÂ; Orlovat, c. 1785 â TimiÃÂoara, Habsburg monarchy, 21 January 1829) was a Serb icon painter and goldsmith from the region of Banat.
Emanuil AntonoviÃÂ was born around 1785 in Orlovat, a Banat military frontier border town. He came from a trading family, whose representatives lived and worked in ÃÂakovo, and TimiÃÂoara's suburb of Fabric (Fabrika). He was the son of Antonije, an Orlovac buyer (merchant). He was married to Juliana, who died in TimiÃÂoara in 1829.
Manojlo was educated in TimiÃÂoara in the 1790s, and later from 1816 until his death he lived in the Serbian suburb of Fabrika, in the city of TimiÃÂoara. He died on 21 January 1829 in TimiÃÂoara, where he was buried.
It is not known where and with whom he studied icon painting and gilding probably in nearby Veliki BeÃÂkerek. He was more of an artistic craftsman than an academic artist. He belonged to the artistic epoch of the transition period.
Manojlo was a close associate of the famous TimiÃÂoara icon painter Sava PetroviÃÂ. They worked together in a temple in the TimiÃÂoara suburb of Mehala from 1819 to 1820 and Parac. AntonoviÃÂ gilded the iconostasis in the Mehala Serbian Orthodox Church.
Manojlo Antonoviàworked for the churches in ÃÂir (1817), the most extensive work in Ketfelj (1821âÂÂ1825), Mehala (1819âÂÂ1820), Parac (1828) and Fabrika (1821; 1828âÂÂ1829).