The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex is the name given to each of seven versions of a composition painted by Paja Jovanović which depict Dušan the Mighty introducing Serbia's earliest surviving law c
Paja Jovanović Krunisanje Cara Dušana
The Prizren Manuscript of Dušan's Code
Detail showing Dušan emerging from the church, flanked by his wife and young son, as his law codex is proclaimed to the people
The painter and art critic Nadežda Petrović described the painting as Jovanović's greatest work
The Takovo Uprising
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The Takovo Uprising is the title of two nearly identical oil paintings by the Serbian realist Paja Jovanović. They depict rebel leader Miloš Obrenović inciting his countrymen against the Ottoman Empir
The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex
…art", and lauded The Proclamation of Dušan's Law Codex as his best work. Filipovitch-Robinson ranks it among Jovanović's three best paintings, alongside The Takovo Uprising (1888) and Migration of the Serbs (1896). "By focusing on the famed reign of Tsar Dušan," she writes, "Jovanović was making a case for the respect with…
Paja Jovanović, Takovski ustanak
Paja Jovanović, c. 1900
The painting was commissioned by the young King Alexander in 1889