Stefan Gavrilović ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Гавриловић,

Sremski Karlovci Sremski Karlovci ( sr-Cyrl, Сремски Карловци, ) is a town and municipality located in the South Bačka Districtautonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. It is situated on the banks of the Danube, from Novi Sad. According to the 202 ...

, c. 1750-Sremski Karlovci, 1823) was an 18th-century-19th-century

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n painter known best for his iconostasis and frescoes. He is considered one of the masters of Neoclassical and late

Baroque painting Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement. The movement is often identified with Absolutism, the Counter Reformation and Catholic Revival,Jakov Orfelin and

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 ...

Georgije Bakalović Georgije Bakalović (1786 - April 13, 1843) was a Serbian painter. Biography Bakalović was born in Sremski Karlovci, and studied there with the painter Stefan Gavrilović. He worked mostly iconostasis, murals and portraits. One of the iconostas ...

was one of his pupils. Gavrilović, whose work anticipated the arrival of the new artistic tendency—the

Neoclassicism Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative arts, decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiq ...

—had his studio workshop in

. He made many flags for the

First Serbian Uprising The First Serbian Uprising (; sr-Cyrl, Први српски устанак; ) was an uprising of Serbs in Orašac (Aranđelovac), Orašac against the Ottoman Empire from 14 February 1804 to 7 October 1813. The uprising began as a local revolt ...

against the

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. He authored

Mojsije Putnik Mojsije Putnik ( sr-cyr, Мојсије Путник, ) (1728–1790) was the Metropolitan of Sremski Karlovci between 1781 and 1790, during the reign of Joseph II. He was known for publishing the Toleranzpatent (tolerance patent) meant to ens ...

's portrait, among many other paintings,

icons An icon () is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran churches. The most common subjects include Jesus, Mary, saints, and angels. Although especially ...

and

frescoes Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

Selected works

File:Jakov pl. Čokić, spahija bečejski.jpg, Portrait of Jakov Čokić, spahija from Bečej, 1780 File:Stefan Gavrilović - Hristos i grešnica.jpg, ''Christ and a Sinner'', 1795 File:First Serbian Uprising early 1804 flag.png, Flag, early 1804 File:First Serbian Uprising regular army flag.png, Flag, early 1809 File:First Serbian Uprising voivode flag.png, First Serbian Uprising voivode flag, 1811

References

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