Paya
Jovanovic

Pavel (Paja) Jovanović (Serbian: Pavle "Pađa" Jovanovićћ; June 16, 1859, Vrsac - November 30, 1957, Vienna) was a Serbian painter. As a representative of academic realism, Paja Jovanovic maintained the traditions of academic painting despite global changes, world wars, social cataclysms - the world of empires was disappearing and a new order of revolutionary and then socialist states was emerging. Paja Jovanovic was and remains one of the most famous Serbian artists. His interest in national life, in historical subjects influenced education in culture and art, Serbian national consciousness and patriotism.