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Joakim Marković (c. 1685–1757) was an Austrian Serb painter who worked in Old
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. He painted the iconostasis of two bishopric churches in
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and
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, and in St. Thomas Church in Dišnik (now Garesnica in the
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). Artistically and historically Marković's most interesting iconostasis is the memorial church built by a Serbian military border officer, Baron Mihailo Mikašinović in Plavšinac. In Plavšinac, Joakim Marković painted two compositions in 1750, one showing the privileges bestowed by Byzantine emperor
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on the Serbs and Croats - the privilege of establishing themselves in his dominion. That painting is now in
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. The second Marković's painting shows the Austrian monarch
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with Serbs. These paintings are considered the first historical compositions in our recent art. Marković painted primarily religious-themed icons and frescoes. He did frescoes for the
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in the church monasteries throughout
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. He later returned to Buda where he continued to work until he died in 1757.


Selected works

File:Sekula Vitković, oberkapetan Petrovaradinskog Šanca.jpg, ''Portrait of Sekula Vitković, Oberkapetan of Petrovaradin'' (1734),
Gallery of Matica Srpska The Gallery of Matica Srpska (, sr-Cyrl, Галерија Матице Српске) is one of the largest and oldest galleries in Serbia. It is located in the central zone of Novi Sad, next to Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection. The Gallery wa ...
File:Sveti Jovan Preteča (St. John the Forerunner) Joakim Marković.jpg, ''St. John the Forerunner'' (1749), Gallery of Matica Srpska File:Jovan Belgradi major Slavonskog husarskog puka.jpg, ''Portrait of Jovan Belgradi'' (c.1750), Gallery of Matica Srpska File:Serbs and Croats in front of the Byzantine Emperor Basil II.jpg, ''Serbs and Croats in front of Basil II, Holy Roman Emperor'', Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Zagreb


See also

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List of painters from Serbia This is a list of notable Serbian painters. A * Nikola Aleksić (1808–1873) * Dimitrije Avramović (1815–1855) * Ljubomir Aleksandrović (1828–1890) * Stevan Aleksić (1876–1923) * Dragomir Arambašić (1881–1945) * Stojan Arali ...


References

18th-century Serbian painters 18th-century male artists 1680s births 1757 deaths People from Slavonia 18th-century Austrian painters Austrian people of Serbian descent 18th-century Austrian male artists Austrian male painters People from Buda Fresco painters {{Serbia-artist-stub