An open touring car stands at the kerb in a broad empty street, seen square on from across the roadway. It is a large four seat tourer with the hood folded back, wire spoked wheels, a spare carried at the rear and a long bonnet, and two people sit in it while others stand at the near side with a hand on the body. Behind it the front of the Bishop's Palace fills the frame, its ground floor pierced by paired and grouped round headed windows under moulded heads, its upper storey faced in banded brick with tall arched openings, and a heavy iron railing on a stone plinth running along the pavement. The gateway in the middle of the railing has been dressed for an occasion: its two stone piers are wound with greenery and flowers and a swag of leaves is carried up over the doorway behind. A row of onlookers stands along the railings to the left, several of them children, and the near foreground is empty roadway with the corner of a rendered building cutting into the right of the frame.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
- Date
- 1920–1935
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1067 × 833 px
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