Manasija's frescoes famous for their aristocratic beauty and educated iconographic program were made by the best Byzantine painters from the first half of 15th century. In the altar there is a composition the Communion of the Apostles, in the first zone of NAOS were the paintings of the Warrior Saints, monks and the idealized painting of the founder Despot Stefan while he gave the model of the church St. Trojica. In the higher zones were the paintings from Christ's life, miracles and parables. The pillars hold the pictures of Saints circled by the rainbow of colors.
The most valuable pictures in Manasija are the pictures which by their beauty belong to the greatest works od Serbian medieval art of painting. This is the last monument of the Morava School style. Old and ruined frescoes are very interesting for their great beauty even today.
Manasija's frescoes look like the frescoes which we can see in churches in Thessalonica and in Mount Athos, and there is an opinion that the great painters came from Thessalonica, which was the centre of medieval art of painting in the Balkan. There are many writings which tell us of Despot Stefan's death. One of them tells that he died on the horse with a falcon in his hand, he got a heart attack in village Glavica, near Kragujevac, and the next day he died in tent. He was buried with a great ceremony in an already prepared tomb in his foundation, monastery Resava. In the place where he died the marble stone was put with ancient Serbian epitaph. This monument is saved in church in village Stojnik until these days.
