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https://doi.org/10.53745/ccp.48.94.1
Collection of Book Illustration Clippings by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU)
Ivan Ferenčak
orcid.org/0000-0001-9443-0420
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ana Petković Basletić
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The Department of Prints and Drawings of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU) holds the largest and previously little-known collection of book illustration clippings from the collection of Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski (1816–1889). As a result of his collecting, book illustrations can also be found in three other heritage institutions in Zagreb, where they have been cataloged with indirect information regarding their origin. The circumstances of the collection’s arrival at the Academy, directly from Kukuljević, and its circulation within the Academy are explained. In 1868, Kukuljević sold his librar – which included »several thousand copper, stone, and woodcut images« – to the Academy. The purchased library materials were divided between the Academy's Archive and Library in 1892, and a selection of illuminated manuscripts went to the Strossmayer Gallery, which at the time was the only Academy unit collecting works of visual art. It is assumed that the book illustrations also reached the Gallery as visual works during this same transfer. The artwork on paper, which most likely included Kukuljević's collection, entered the Department of Prints and Drawings (established in 1951) from the Gallery. A few years later, the earliest records of the collection’s existence were found (1957), and a decade later (1966), it was noted that the collection contained »more than 2,800 items.« A smaller group of clippings was transfered from the Academy's Library in 1993, further indicating the connection with Kukuljević’s library. The collection in the Department of Prints and Drawings was cataloged in 2008 and 2011, but the clippings were not scientifically processed, published, exhibited, or evaluated, and thus remained outside the focus of researchers. The collection consists of 3,041 individual fragments of a wide variety of book illustrations, or, more rarely, entire pages and standalone prints. The books from which the clippings originate were printed between the 16th and 19th centuries in major European printing centers (Venice, Rome, Paris, Antwerp...), covering a wide range of texts in terms of content and themes. The illustrations were printed using various techniques, typologically covering diverse elements of book visual design (covers, printers’ marks, initials, borders, etc.), and are thematically tied to the texts with which they were produced, offering a cross-section of stylistic changes in visual expression from late Gothic to Historicism. Out of this extensive corpus, 160 fragments are linked to five titles, and upon identifying the editions, the fragments were analyzed in their original literary and cultural contexts. The examples selected here represent a cross-section of Italian printing from the 16th to 18th centuries, specifically the visual design of Renaissance and Baroque books. Among them, along with standard solutions for initials and borders, some more valuable original graphic designs were identified, created specifically for certain editions.
Ključne riječi
Department of Prints and Drawings of HAZU; book illustrations; prints; Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski; book clippings; Italian printing of the 16th–18th centuries
Hrčak ID:
324719
URI
Datum izdavanja:
27.12.2024.
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