Studio portrait of Vela Nigrinova in character as 'Joan of Arc'
Description
» next entryoverview« previous entry| Object: | Studio portrait of Vela Nigrinova in character as 'Joan of Arc' |
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| Description: | Upper-body profile shot of a women. She is dressed like Joan of Arc with a helmet on her head, wearing a man's shirt and holding a sabre in front of her. |
| Comment: | Le Mois de Jeanne D'Arc' ('Jovanka od Arka') is a 1892 play by Joseph Fabre (1842–1916). 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. |
| Date: | 1891 |
| Location: | Belgrade |
| Country: | Serbia |
| Type: | Photograph |
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| Creator: | Jovanović, Milan, (Photographer) |
| Dimensions: | Artefact: 186mm x 133mm |
| Format: | Boudoir |
| Technique: | Not specified |
| Copyright: | Muzej Pozorišne Umetnosti Srbije |
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| Archive: | Museum of Theater Art of Serbia, Inv. No.: II-295 |
| License: | This picture is licensed under Creative Commons [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0] |
| Editor: | Ana Djordjevic |
| Permalink: | https://gams.uni-graz.at/o:vase.1376 |
