Georgije Mišković was a Serbian icon painter during the Serbian
Baroque
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period of the 1760s and the 1790s. He worked on commissions with painters
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 original ...
,
Grigorije Davidović-Obšić and many others.
Georgije Mišković was a proponent of European
Neoclassicism
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in the
visual arts
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, founded on the concepts of
Enlightenment
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Age of Enlightenment
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that followed Baroque but did little to compete with late Baroque.
Such tendencies also came to the fore in paintings of other Serbian artists, namely
Stefan Gavrilović, Mihajlo Živković and
Jovan Isailović.
References
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Serbian painters
18th-century Serbian people