Preliminary communication
IVAN MEŠTROVIĆ'S LETTERS TO CVITO FISKOVIĆ CONCERNING EARLY CROATIAN MONUMENTS
Cvito Fisković
Abstract
The author, Cvito Fisković, former director of the Split Institute for the Preservation of Monuments in Dalmatia, was appointed director of the Meštrović Gallery before Meštrović moved to the USA. Meštrović wanted him appointed and also wanted him to supervise his other works in Dalmatia. Consegvently Fisković regularly corresponded with Meštrović concerning the latter's gallery and his works and their transport to and their housing in the sculptor's native country. The sculptor was specially concerned about his reliefs in wood which were sent from the USA for his chapel built in Split near the gallery.
In his letters Meštrović expressed interest in early Croatian monuments in the Archaeological Museum in Knin which were brought to Split during World War II. This interest national heritage, revealed also by his architectural and sculptural creations, is manifested in his letters from 1945 to 1955 as well as his wish that the mentioned monuments be exhibitied in America which, unfortunately was never realized.
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93863
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Publication date:
19.12.1995.
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