conquest belgrade conquest belgrade oil painting serbia significant female painters painted depicts capture belgrade serbian revolutionaries late serbian uprising inspired create painting reading book titled history people studying painting poorly received belgrade art critics art historian suggests poor spatial conception 1870s works largely forgotten serbia conquest belgrade paintings offered gallery went form nucleus painting currently possession background according scholar specializing serbian cultural history conditions 19th century serbia unsuitable development visual art materials difficult come studio exhibition spaces virtually non existent art patrons willing financially support painters purchase finished works half 19th century serbian visual artists dedicated exclusively walls churches producing icons religious objects painters heritage living outside serbia resided artists born significant serbian female painter left went study painting master remained later year found patron late funded vienna precisely training entailed unknown women admitted time likely classified special student privately scholars suggested studied established degree certainty documents pertaining time vienna destroyed subsequent wars description history oil canvas conquest belgrade measures centimetres depicts city capture serbian revolutionaries late serbian uprising proved defining battles insurrection left vienna gone study possibly owing subsequent statements suggest inspired paint conquest belgrade time writing recalled painting came studying started read history people wanted paint brave battle canvas seven comrades succeeded entering city night muslims celebrating didn think danger comrades killed guards town gate rifle shots signal soon travelled belgrade visited participants belgrade capture examined period clothing weaponry battle created composition painted belgrade legacy conquest belgrade known historical composition time period art historian describes second phase career lasted painting received belgrade critics poorly conceived writes exciting tones art historian states painting typical phase career saw substantial decline quality scene paintings dissatisfaction way works received serbian capital prompted leave serbia historian compares work romantic presentation depiction contemporary survivors reliable documentary piece asserts typical contemporary serbian painters long romantic tradition borrowed elements artists especially france describes painting highly theatrical emotional romantic complexity deliberate confusion intense writes resembles paintings french romantic predecessors contemporary painted little final years said largely forgotten serbia 1870s june honorary member later eventually died september offered paintings nucleus later paintings conquest belgrade work remains possession classified inventory number
The Conquest of Belgrade