PRIMA ŞCOALĂ ROMÂNEASCĂ DIN SERBIA
THE FIRST ROMANIAN SCHOOL IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: In 1736 Vasile Loga (deacon) from Wallachia from monastery (Tismana) in Oltenia,together with many other Romanian families had settled down in Sredistea Mica near Vrsac. This was the first colony of buffs in this part of Banat. In the monastery Sredistea Mica,Vasile Loga –Diaconovic had done all his work in Romanian and he founded a famous Romanian school of painting. The famous painter Gheorghe Diaconovici from Banat was born on April 20, 1736 in Sredistea Mica, in the same year when his father had set up his own school of painters and school for teaching in Sredistea Mica,in Banat ,where he worked very hard.He was very dedicated to this. The working method of the painters who had come from Wallachia is proved by the inscriptions on the walls of the churches. At the school in Sredistea Mica were laid the foundations of an original art. The school of the monk in Tismana had graduated and other members of Diaconovici family (Gheorghe, Iestatie, Constantin), Stancu Raicu, Radu Lazarevici, Ioan Popovici, Stefan Popovici, and so on. From the Diaconovici family also came the well-known monk of Banat Constantin Diaconovici Loga. Diaconovics dynasty and its influence of the painting school in Sredistea Mica (known as well as Parneaura) ) although it had an important role in painting churches in Banat,still it was not sufficiently researched. There are some: the church of Sredistea Mica and Mare, Ratistior, Bocsa Montana, Nicolint, Colpodia, Mesici, Izbiste, Seleus, Alibunar, Vrsat and others. With the abolition of the monastery (1777), Vasile Diaconovici and his family stood at Bocsa , which becomes an important cultural and artistic center.

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