Živko Jugović
Živko Jugović was a Serbian painter of religious themes.Biography
Born in Čačak, he finished his gymnasium in Belgrade before Metropolitan Mihailo sent him to Imperial Russia for higher ecuation, and to specialize in iconography. He was first sent to Sergiyev Posad to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, Kiev Pechersk Lavra, Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and later the Department of Education in Serbia made it possible for him to study in Italy at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.He then went to paint ten iconostases vesting the new artistic trends in all of them. His work can be seen in Mali Leskovac, Jagodina where he did the wall paintings, in Trnava, and in Ružica Church in Belgrade.
He also painted the iconostasis in his native Serbian church in Kragujevac which he completed in the year 1904 with his young assistant Milan Milovanović. It was at the same time when sculptor Đorđe Jovanović, working in Kragujevac, finished his monument to the heroes of the Battle of Kosovo.
