Gallery of Matica Srpska

Art museum, National History Museum in Novi Sad, Serbia

Gallery of Matica Srpska
Галерија Матице Српске Galerija Matice Sprpske
Logo of the Gallery of Matica Srpska
The Gallery of Matica Srpska entrance

Established	14 October 1847; 176 years ago (1847-10-14)
Location	Novi Sad, Serbia
Type	Art museum National History Museum
Collection size	More than 7,000 paintings
Director	Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski (2010–present)
Website	www.galerijamaticesrpske.rs

The Gallery of Matica Srpska (Serbian: Galerija Matice Srpske, Serbian Cyrillic: Галерија Матице Српске) is one of the largest and oldest galleries in Serbia. It is located in the central zone of Novi Sad, next to Pavle Beljanski Memorial Collection.

The Gallery was established on the 14th of October 1847, with contributions from Sava Tekelija who left a valuable family portrait collection to the Matica Srpska, and other Serb merchants who made endowments and donations to the gallery.^[1]

The building of Gallery of Matica Srpska was declared a Monument of Culture of Great Importance in 1979.^[2]

The Gallery of Matica Srpska has acted as an independent institution apart from Matica Srpska since 1958. Collections in The Gallery of Matica Srpska mostly consists of paintings from all periods of the national history of art.^[3]^[4]

Gallery

Monumental pictures and the hall for lectures
Furniture and works of art, endowment of architect Dragiša Brašovan
Late Baroque art
Icons and religious art
Bust of king Peter of Serbia and works representing Serbian nobility
The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex
Portraits of 19th century elite
(Un)covering
Religious art
Works by Paja Jovanović
Modernism
The Wounded Montenegrin by Paja Jovanović (1882)
Girl with a canary by Novak Radonić (1865)
Moravkinja by Uroš Predić (1879-1880)

References

^ "The Gallery of Matica Srpska". City of Novi Sad. 2011.
^ Monuments of Culture in Serbia: Зграда управе фондова / Building of Fund Administration (SANU) (in Serbian and English)
^ Simić, Vladimir. Za ljubav otadžbine: patriote i patriotizmi u srpskoj kulturi XVIII veka u Habzburškoj monarhiji, Novi Sad: Galerija Matice srpske 2012.
^ Vrbaski, Milena. "Srpska umetnost XIX veka u zbirci Galerije Matice srpske". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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