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

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Biography

Bačević studied painting at the workshop of

Vasilije Romanovich and Jov Vasilijevich Vasilije Romanovič (Kiev, Imperial Russia, c. 1700 - Hopovo, now Serbia, 1773) and Jov Vasilijevič (Kiev, Imperial Russia, c. 1700 - Kiev, Imperial Russia, after 1760) were accomplished icon painters who came from Imperial Russia to Srem on an ...

who came to

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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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, 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 Beočin Monastery, 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.

References

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