Ljubica Miljković “On Serbian Art, with Love – Volume 2“

Foundation “For Serbian People and State” would like to thank the Foundation “Plavo” for the idea
and encouragement to publish the book of selected professional texts and essays by Ljubica
Miljković, entitled “On Serbian Art, with Love”. The first volume was published in 2024. The second
volume was published in 2025, the year commemorating Saint Sava’s Orthodoxy – when the Serbian
people and state and the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrate the 850th birth anniversary of Rastko
Nemanjić – the monk of Mount Athos, later the first Serbian Archbishop Sava, statesman and
legislator, pilgrim and diplomat, writer and public teacher, educator and saint – Saint Sava.

In her selection, the author gave priority to the figures whose exquisitely collected works testify best
about their own accomplishments, as well as the accomplishments of our painting, and about the
wealth of the youngest of thirty-five collections in the oldest museum in the Republic of Serbia.
“Often, whenever it was possible, I also complemented them with the works from other museums
and private collections in order to make a full impression. One of the conditions was that some of the
museum/gallery institutions had not planned the same or had already organized a retrospective with
an accompanying catalogue in the recent past.