Discovering Dalmatia. Dalmatia in 18th and 19th century travelogues, pictures and photographs
International conference organized by Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split
Ethnographic Museum Split, Severova 1, May 21-23, 2015
Academic Committee:
Joško Belamarić (Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fisković Split)
Cvijeta Pavlović (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Milan Pelc (Institute of Art History Zagreb)
Ana Šverko (Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fisković Split)
Elke Katharina Wittich (Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, AMD Hamburg)
Organizing Committee:
Joško Belamarić, Nela Gubić, Cvijeta Pavlović, Milan Pelc, Ana Šverko
Assistants:
Mirjana Malovan, Iva Raič Stojanović, Ivana Tadić
Discovering Dalmatia is a week-long programme 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.
The concluding part of this week-long programme 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 stem from the research project Dalmatia – a destination of the European Grand Tour in the 18th and the 19th century (2014-2017) of the Institute of Art History, under the aegis of the Croatian Science Foundation.
This programme is financed by the Croatian Science Foundation with the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, the City of Split, the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy of the University of Split, the Split-Dalmatia County Tourist Board and the Tourist Board of Split.
For more information about the conference, with its programme and the book of abstracts, please downolad the booklet (PDF format, 2.040 Kb).