The exhibition provides an opportunity for visitors to get acquainted with the origin of the city of Kruševac in 1371, the construction of the church of Lazarica, the first years of the reing of the city's founder, Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović (1329-1389), as well as during the Battle of Kosovo.
The publishing house “Poeticum izdavaštvo” from Kraljevo is organizing an event called “Days of Milan Đokić” in memory of the Kraljevo artist, poet, painter, and conservator Milan Đokić, who left us in 2018. The National Museum Kraljevo, the National Library “Stefan Prvovenčani” Kraljevo, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments Kraljevo and the Cultural Center “Evergreen” are taking part in the event.
Žiča Spiritual Assembly “Transfiguration” is an important national cultural event with the goal of nurturing, studying, and affirming the values of our national culture. The program of the Assembly begins with a ceremonial opening in the National Museum Kraljevo with selected artistic and musical program. This traditional event will be opened with the exhibition “Beneath a Sky of Gold and Blue: Icons of Greek Master Painters from the 15th to the 19th Century of the National Museum of Serbia”.
Within the selection of the author of the exhibition, Branka Ivanić, museum advisor of the National Museum of Serbia, 147 icons were included in the exhibition. These are icons from the territories of traditional Greek countries, as well as from a wider area within the Ottoman Empire and neighboring countries where the influences of Greek culture remained recognizable.
The scientific conference with international participation is the second part of a three-year project organized by the National Museum Kraljevo with the support of the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade and the Institute for Political Studies from Belgrade. During the two days of the conference, on August 17th and 18th, 2022, thirty scientists from the country and abroad will present their papers.
The book by the author Aleksandar Pavlić is a kind of drawing manual with the focus on the process of drawing the human head, and the image of saints. Although it was written for beginners, the manual goes beyond this purpose, as a kind of comprehensive work in the field of iconographic drawing.
Art historians Jovana Durman and Jelena Marković will guide you through the exhibition about Greek icon painters during the long period of Ottoman rule in the Orthodox area of the Balkans, the Adriatic and the Mediterranean every Wednesday and Friday from 1 p.m.
The lecture is held as part of Kraljevo's Day, the day of the City of Kraljevo, when the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates St. Simon, that is, St. King Stefan the First-Crowned, founder of Žiča.
Raids by the German army in the surrounding villages that began in September 1941 had the character of selective punitive measures, directed against specific individuals. However, with the spread of the uprising, the intensification of actions and the expansion of the area of influence, the German troops will move on to retaliatory measures against the entire population of a certain place. The consequences of these punitive expeditions were: the suffering of the civilian population, looted and burned households, destroyed crops and decimated livestock.
Vesna Vesić is a multimedia artist, whose work is characterized by an emphasis on involvement, complexity, and experimentalism, which she creates by acting through the medium of video (in the first person), drawings in materials such as wool, installations and text. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in 2001. She participated in many exhibitions in the country and abroad (Ljubljana, Vienna, Warsaw, Trieste, Rome, Amsterdam), and her most significant participation was at the 48th Biennale in Venice, in the international selection of curator Herald Zeman.
At the promotion of the scientific-professional journal of the National Museum Kraljevo and the Historical Archives in Kraljevo, the articles will be presented by Aleksandra Vuletić, PhD, Prof. Milan Popadić, and Milutin Živković, PhD.
The String Quartet “Bliss” consists of: Bojana Đolović (violin), professor of chamber music, violin and orchestra at the Music School “Dr. Vojislav Vučković” in Čačak, founder of the “Bliss” Quartet, Aleksandar Jakovljević (cello), professor at the Department of Chamber Music at the Faculty of Arts of the University in Niš, Saša Mirković (violin) and Jovan Tešić (violin). The program was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.