Studio portrait of Vela NigrinovaVisualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950Ana DjordjeviceditorCentre for Southeast European History, University GrazCentre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Grazo:vase.1375Muzej Pozorišne Umetnosti SrbijeMuseum of Theater Art of SerbiaII-294EthosTotal CultureClothingAdornmentPosturesLiving Standards and RoutinesMusicArtsDramaArtsMusical and Theatrical ProductionsCommercialized EntertainmentPersonal NamesIndividuation and MobilityStatus, Role, and PrestigeIndividuation and MobilitySocial StratificationFamiliyStateGender Roles and IssuesSerbiaBelgradeBelgrade20.46513,44.80401PhotographPhotographer1895MilanJovanovićJovanović, MilanHalf-length shot of a woman sitting on a chair. She is dressed in a dark evening gown adorned with a cross of merit. VASE.01409 is the same image, only mounted on a different underlay cardboard.Vela (Avgusta) Nigrinova (1862, Ljubljana – 1908, Belgrade) was the daughter of a Czechoslovakian father and a Slovenian mother. She was married to Davorin Jenko, a Slovenian composer and the author of the Serbian national anthem 'Bože pravde'. Vela is considered a superb early Serbian actress. For the major part of her acting career she lived in Belgrade and played at the Royal Serbian National Theatre.Not specifiedBoudoir194133SerbiaBelgrade