Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.17685/Peristil.60.1
Ivan Grubić Jablan’s Collection of Salonitan Antiquities
Torlak Ana
orcid.org/0000-0003-4572-6692
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Department of Art History
Abstract
The Enlightenment-inspired and Romanticist view of classical antiquity of the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century positioned Roman Salona on the map of appealing archaeological sites of Europe. Parallel to the foundation of institutions responsible for the management and preservation of Salonitan monuments grew the interest of antiquarians, both local and foreign, for the newly discovered objects. Foreign researchers obtained artefacts mainly through the assistance of locals, but very little or nothing is known of collections formed in this way. Surviving data reveals only the existence of collections owned by prominent individuals, while collections of unknown owners in smaller communities remain for the most part completely unknown.
The paper discusses the previously unknown collection of bronze statuettes formed by Ivan Grubić called Jablan from Solin, now part of the Collection of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Antikensammlung) of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Keywords
Ivan Grubić Jablan; Salona; Solin; private collections; bronze statuettes; Mercury; Hermes; Eros
Hrčak ID:
195177
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Publication date:
31.12.2017.
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