Dimitrije Avramović

Avramović also translated from German into Serbian Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("The History of Art in Antiquity") and other writings.

The following year, thanks to Jovan Sterija Popović, he received funds to travel to the Holy Mountain, better known as Mount Athos in Greece, and do research.

[5][6] His life's desire was to paint the iconostasis of the church in his native Šajkaš, but his premature death did not allow him to complete his work.

He wrote two scholarly books on art from Mount Athos after visiting the monasteries there, Opisanie drevnosti Srbski u svetoi (Atonskoi) Gori (Description of Serbian Antiquities on the Holy Mountain of Athos; 1847)[7][8] and Sveta Gora sa strane vere, hudožestva i povestnice (The Holy Mountain from the standpoint of Religion, Art and History; 1848).

In fact, he accelerated the development of Serbian studies, while at the same time fostering a real Hilandar cult among a wide circle of readers.