Kosovo Maiden

The Kosovo Maiden or Maiden of the Blackbird Field (Kosovka devojka, Косовка девојка) is the central figure of a poem with the same name, an example of Serbian epic poetry. In it, a young beauty assists wounded Serbian warriors after the Battle of Kosovo (with the meaning 'of the Blackbird Field') and searches for her fiancé, godfather, and leader. Finally, she learns from a wounded warrior that all three are dead.

The poem became greatly popular as a symbol of womanly care and charity. Uroš Predić took up the theme in 1919 with an oil painting of the same title. In 1907, the sculptor Ivan Meštrović created a marble relief of the subject as a part of his Kosovo-sculpture cycle.