Kosovo Maiden – Kosovka Devojka Figurative Oil painting

Oil Painting on Canvas
by artist Darko Topalski

Name: Kosovo Maiden
(“Kosovka Devojka” after Uros Predic)

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: ±28x40in (70X100cm)
Year: 2019
Signed: Yes
Available: NO!

(Acquired by art collector from Serbia)

The Kosovo Maiden or Maiden of the Blackbird Field (Serbian: Косовка девојка / Kosovka devojka) is the central figure of a poem with the same name, part of the Kosovo cycle in the Serbian epic poetry. In it, a young beauty searches the battlefield for her betrothed husband and helps wounded Serbian warriors with water, wine and bread after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 between Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. She finally finds the wounded and dying warrior Pavle Orlović who tells her that her fiancé Milan Toplica and his blood-brothers Miloš Obilić and Ivan Kosančić are dead. Before the battle they had given her a cloak, golden ring and veil for the wedding as a promise of safe return, but they were slain and Pavle pointed to the direction of the bodies.
The poem became greatly popular as a symbol of womanly compassion and charity. Uroš Predić took up the theme in 1919 with an oil painting of the same title. (source: Wikipedia)