Aksentije Marodić, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1838
Place of Birth: Subotica, Vojvodina, Serbia
Date of Death: 20-Mar-1909
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Aksentije Marodić
- Aksentije Marodic (Subotica, Serbia, 20 February 1838 – Novi Sad, Serbia, 20 March 1909) was a Serbian academic painter from Vojvodina.He was born in Subotica, the son of Maksim, a tailor, and Ljubica Marodic.
- He was an apprentice of painter Petar Pilic in Senta in 1851–55, then of Nikola Aleksic in Novo Miloševo.
- While receiving many orders from the leading citizens in Subotica, he also worked for the Serbian Orthodox Church; he restored the Bunaric church icons in 1857.
- The next year he moved to Becej, where he made acclaimed portraits and painted the church of baroness Jovic in 1861.
- He studied painting in Vienna at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1866, thanks to benefactors from Subotica and Becej and also the municipal government of Subotica.
- He then lived and worked in Italy, and upon his return published travelogues in the magazines Zastava and Javor in 1874.
- His work was influenced by the Italian masters that he studied.
- Josip Juraj Strossmayer, particularly, valued his work.
- Marodic was elected member of the Matica srpska literary department in 1883.
- He lived and worked in Kovilj until 1903, then in Novi Sad.
- His most accomplished work was the iconostasis in the Kovilj monastery.
- He was buried in the Dormition cemetery in Novi Sad. Marodic was the first academic painter from Subotica and a representative of academicism and romanticism in Serbian painting in the second half of the 19th century.
- His birth house is part of the cultural heritage of Serbia under the protection of the Cultural Monuments of Exceptional Importance.
- A large number of his works are exhibited in the gallery of Matica srpska, of which 32 works are donated by the Backa Gallery in Subotica. A street in Subotica bears his name.
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