Summary
Dušan Škorić: Catholic Baroque Painting in Vojvodina
In this comprehensive overview of Baroque painting from the Catholic churches of Vojvodina, Dušan Škorić studies the iconographic, ideological and stylistic structure of the painting. It determines their attributions and dates them, investigates the framework of their origin and the way they arrived in Vojvodina. It analyzes the patronage mechanism and the mechanism of buying and delivering pictures. At the same time, he explains how the works of the best baroque painters of Central Europe were found in modest parish churches. From this study, we learn the importance of visual culture in Vojvodina, which was then part of one of the most powerful European empires.
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