Dimitrije Bačević (1735–1770) was a Serbian icon painter and muralist in the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style.

Biography

Bačević studied painting at the workshop of

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who came to

Sremski Karlovci Sremski Karlovci ( sr-cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ; hu, Karlóca; tr, Karlofça) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danub ...

from Kyiv,

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, in 1741. It was in Vasilievich's

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that the first Serbian

artists were trained, including

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Teodor Kračun Teodor Dimitrijević ( sr-cyr, Теодор Димитријевић; 1730–10 April 1781), known as Teodor Kračun (Теодор Крачун) was a Serbian icon and altar painter. Biography He was born at Sremska Kamenica in 1730. His origi ...

, Grigorije Davidović-Obšić, Aksentije Ostojić and Nikolaj Petrović and later at Bačević's own workshop in

. He is considered the most important representative of the Ukrainian baroque for the painted icons for the ''Nikolajevska crkva'' (Church of St. Nicholas) in

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in 1762. He also painted the iconostasis in Krušedol village church (1767-1769), in the upper church in Sremski Karlovci and the large iconostasis in Jaska Monastery, significant for its numerous figures of Serbian rulers and saints. The icons in the upper tiers of the iconostasis in

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, and the iconostasis in the village of Servas by Osijek are attributed to him as well. Among his icons the most significant are: the icon of St. John the Baptist (depicted with wings) in Kovilj Monastery, and the head of Christ kept in the National Museum in Belgrade. His icons have the dark gamma and dark green shades of the saints. The style of painter Dimitrije Popović who did the iconostasis in

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(1771), Orlovat, Itebej, and Srpski Pardanj was very close to Bačević's.

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Serbian painters 1735 births 1770 deaths 18th-century Serbian people Habsburg Serbs {{Serbia-painter-stub