The Bride of Pivljanin Bajo — an Example of Nationally Engaged Painting by Đura Jakšić

Abstract

The paper analyzes painting The Bride of Pivljanin Bajo as an example of the nationally engaged work of Đura Jakšić and verbal-visual permeation. The painting and its function are interpreted in the context of the political reality at the time - the national struggle for liberation from Ottoman rule, pointing to the influences and iconographic templates of contemporary European historical painting, primarily the painting of Eugène Delacroix.

Keywords

• Đura Jakšić
• nationalism
• verbal-visual permeation
• epic
• allegory
• Delacroix