Gračanica Monastery by Nadežda Petrović - 1913 - 36 х 46,5 cm National Museum in Belgrade Gračanica Monastery by Nadežda Petrović - 1913 - 36 х 46,5 cm National Museum in Belgrade

Gračanica Monastery

oil on canvas • 36 х 46,5 cm
  • Nadežda Petrović - 11/12 October 1873 - 3 April 1915 Nadežda Petrović 1913

Today in Serbia a national and religious holiday called Vidovdan is celebrated. It is a good day to say that DailyArt has been available in Serbian for the past couple of weeks.  :) 

Today's work was painted by Nadežda Petrović, a Serbian painter and one of the women pioneers in war photography in the region. Considered Serbia's most famous Expressionist and Fauvist, she was the most important Serbian female painter of the period. She exhibited her work in many cities throughout Europe.

Among fields full of flowers in the distance, we see Gračanica Monastery. It is an Orthodox monastery located in Kosovo built by the Serbian king Stefan Milutin in 1321. It represents the culmination of the Medieval Serbian art of building in the Serbo-Byzantine tradition. The monastery was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1990, and on 13 July 2006 it was placed on UNESCO's World Heritage List.