DISCOVERING DALMATIA 2, public lectures and presentations

DISCOVERING DALMATIA 2

A week of events in research and scolarship in the Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fisković Split

Records in space and the recording of space: the integration of knowledge concerning historical urban landscapes of the Adriatic in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

24th-28th May 2016

Centre Studia Mediterranea – Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Split, Poljana kraljice Jelene 1/III

Gallery of Fine Arts, Ulica kralja Tomislava 15

Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre in Split, Kružićeva 7

Northwestern tower of Diocletian’s Palace, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy of the University of Split

Wlha, Josef, Egyptian Sphinx in Split (c. 1890); Institute of Art History Zagreb, Ljubo Karaman Archive
Wlha, Josef, Egyptian Sphinx in Split (c. 1890); Institute of Art History Zagreb, Ljubo Karaman Archive

From Tuesday, May 24, to Saturday, May 28,  in the premises of the north-western tower of Diocletian’s Palace, at the top of a building designed by architect Neven Šegvić in the mid-20th century, giving a marvellous view onto the Peristyle, in the Fine Arts Gallery and in the Cvito Fisković Centre in Kružićeva ulica a series of public lectures and presentations will be held. The language of the programme is Croatian, save for May 27, Friday, when lectures will be given by guests from abroad.

The programme will include the presentation of sources for research into the historical urban landscapes of Dalmatia accessible in the Institute of Art History, lectures by colleagues from the British Museum in London and the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, the presentation of a chrono-geographical database of Grand Tourism in Dalmatia in the 18th and 19th centuries, and a number of other lectures, summaries of which (as well as the entire programme) you can find here.

 

(written by A. Š.)