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A Contribution to Research Work on the Art Heritage of Hvar - Paintings in Family Possession
Marinko Petrić
Abstract
Paintings from 15th to the 19th centuries in private family collections in Hvar represent a particularly interesting part of the art heritage of Hvar. Excluding prints (especially from the 19th c.) that are found here in great number, the most valuable part of that section of the local art heritage are some sixty oil-paintings (mostly of Venetian extraction) and icons (mostly of Italo-Cretan origin). Oil-canvases are of a wide stylistic and temporal span, some very fine works being among them (e. g. from the circle of Tintoretto and from that of family da Ponte of Bassano). Icons are found in an exceptional number, ranging from the local art schools of 15th c. to works from Ionian and Russian workshops. Thematic range of the paintings is on the whole rather limited, with prevalence of religious themes and portraits. In the catalogue are supplied some essential data about the paintings (description, state of repair, history). Although limited in quantity, this section of the art heritage of Hvar has an extraordinary importance, since it reveals a different type and a different role of art works in the past of Hvar.
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123739
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Publication date:
30.6.1997.
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