Drohobych painter of the second half of the 17th century. Member of the brotherhood of the Church of St. George. Year of birth unknown. Lived and worked in Drohobych. A bright representative of Ukrainian professional church art of the Mannerist era. Master of the Vyshniv school of painting. He left a great artistic legacy of both easel and monumental painting, which is preserved in the churches of Drohobych, Drohobych region and some other churches of the Przemysl diocese. Most of his works are from the Drohobych Church of St. George, for which he executed the iconostasis of the Vvedensky chapel. (second half of the 1650s), the main six-tiered coffee iconostasis (1659-1669) and the wall compositions “The Last Judgment”, “The Passion of the Lord”, “Akathist to Our Sweet Lord Jesus Christ”, “Akathist to the Theotokos” (1660-1670), probably also “The Torment and Execution of the Apostles and the Coronation of the Theotokos”, images on the upper walls of the altar. During 1664-1669, the painter, at the request of the brothers Smon Fetsovich, Mykhailo Myskoshichev, Ignatiy Mironov, executed a two-tiered iconostasis for the Predtechinsky chapel of the Drohobych Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and in 1672 – also a monumental painting for this small temple within the temple. At the same time, he painted a mural on the farade on both sides of the main portal of the Vozdvyzhenska Church. From that church, a precessional funeral cross with a unique image of the “Bosom of Abraham” and the fraternal silence of his work have been preserved. He also painted iconostases for the churches of the villages of Pochayevichi, Isai. Pidbuzh, Medenichi, and for the last village – “The Last Judgment”. His other works from the churches of our region are known. Stefan Popovich Meditsky died in 1689.

L. Skop