Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre has a pleasure to collaborate in organization of the Colloquium: The 1875 Stefano Shipwreck – Contested Narratives and Contested Identities, that explores another 19th century cross-cultural story.
Read “The 1875 Stefano Shipwreck – Contested Narratives and Contested Identities, a colloquium”
The concluding part of week-long programme “Discovering Dalmatia” of the Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fisković in Split, consists of an international conference entitled Discovering Dalmatia. Dalmatia in 18th and 19th century travelogues, pictures and photographs, in which these topics will be analysed and evaluated in terms of literary theory and the theory and history of art and architecture.
The conference will take place in Ethnographic Museum in Split (Severova 1) from May 21 to May 23.
Discovering Dalmatia is a week-long programme (18th-23rd May 2015) of the Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fisković in Split. It is devoted to cultural and historical aspects of the Croatian littoral that, with their many-layered links with the overall Mediterranean and European world, gradually began to be discovered during the 18th and 19th centuries, when many travel writers and visual artists on their Grand Tours started regularly to visit the eastern coast of the Adriatic.
Read “Zadar: Space, time, architecture. Four new views, a colloquium”
As a part of this project, from May 18 to May 23 a student workshop will be held on a topic entitled:
During the 18th and 19th century, European architects, writers and painters, during the Grand Tour, a practice aimed at making the direct acquaintance of other cultures, which represented the foundation of classical education and the formation of artistic stances and expressions, left verbal and pictorial records of their visits to Diocletian’s Palace in Split. Diocletian’s Palace was a must-see of the Grand Tour on the eastern shores of the Adriatic.
Through an analysis of the drawings and texts, the key points that the travel writers of the time selected to define Diocletian’s Palace and of which they left a lasting record in their art works have been defined. They did not record just the physical condition of the monuments, but also the life within the palace, and rendered their personal impressions and feelings during their sojourns in this very specific space.
We are particularly pleased that the conference organised as part of this project entitled “Discovering Dalmatia. Dalmatia in 18th and 19th travelogues, pictures and photographs”, to be held in Split from May 21 to May 23 has been announced in the distinguished British journal Minerva. The announcement of the conference can be seen here.
Read “Friends of the Grand Tour Dalmatia Project: announcements and donations”
