Ars Adriatica, No. 7, 2017.
Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.15291/ars.1376
Documents related to the Exchange of Two Paintings by Vittore Carpaccio from Strossmayer’s Gallery for the Baptismal Font of Duke Višeslav or Priest Ivan from Museo Correr
Ljerka Dulibić
orcid.org/0000-0002-0720-575X
; Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Iva Pasini Tržec
orcid.org/0000-0002-5493-3047
; Strossmayer's Gallery of Old Masters, HAZU, Zagreb
Abstract
In 1942, two paintings by Vittore Carpaccio from Strossmayer’s Gallery in Zagreb were exchanged for the so-called “Višeslav’s Baptismal Font” from Museo Correr in Venice. An archival investigation of the relevant documents preserved at Strossmayer’s Gallery, the Archive of HAZU, the Croatian Ministry of Culture, Museo Correr, and its library has brought to light an abundant body of sources that offer a direct insight into the negotiations and make it possible to create a precise chronology of exchange, which has contributed to our knowledge of the events in a wider social and historical context. The authors also indicate the importance of an older document from the archive of Museo Correr, which contains a valuable description of the baptismal font from 1852.
Keywords
Strossmayer’s Gallery of Old Masters at HAZU; Museo Correr; baptismal font of Duke Višeslav or Priest Ivan; Vittore Carpaccio; transfer of cultural heritage; postwar restitution negotiations
Hrčak ID:
191265
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Publication date:
20.12.2017.
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