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Correspondence Josip Juraj Strossmayer - Isidor Kršnjavi
Zoran Grijak
Sažetak
Based on transcribed letters of Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Bosnian- Đakovo- Srijem bishop, sent to Isidor Kršnjavi, Croatian painter, art historian and politician in period 1875/1884, the author showed their complex interrelations. Under the influence of Khuen Hedervary the pragmatic and ambitious Krπnjavi left the Party of Rights to join the National Party in 1884, which resulted in Strossmayer’s breaking up his friendly liaisons with Kršnjavi.However, Strossmayer’s letters addressed to Kršnjavi from 1875- 1884, are evidence of their friendship and loyalty. The letters refer to some important contemporary events in Croatia and Europe. Among others, they mention the great Russian-Turkish war (1875-1878), which led to Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the Berlin Congress of 1878. The letters dating from that period show that Strossmayer’s influence went far beyond Croatian borders and that he played active part in Europe as bishop, politician and patron of the arts. Strossmayer also mentions Kriæevci, which proves that the city held an outstanding position in cultural and economic terms of the period. The letters also discuss some great cultural topics, like purchase of paintings for the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Painters in Zagreb (founded in 1884), where many works of European baroque and renaissance artists are housed. Strossmayer, Rački and Krπnjavi visited Italian renaissance art centres ( Florence, Siena, Rome) to buy paintings made by the best Italian artists of the mature renaissance together with works by Flemish, German and Dutch painters. The letters also describe problems connected with the gallery’s location, the building of grammar school in Osijek, mention Ivan Mažuranić and Ladislav Pejačević, Croatian vice-roys and their cultural policy as well as other persons and events. All that makes these letters an important source of studying Croatian cultural and political history in the second half of the 19th century.
Ključne riječi
Correspondence; J. J. Strossmayer; I. Kršnjavi; Strossmayer gallery; cultural policy
Hrčak ID:
9006
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Datum izdavanja:
25.2.2007.
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