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Two Old Catalogues of Paintings from Hvar in Private Possession
Marinko Petrić
Abstract
Older written sources on the art heritage od Hvar, especially of that in private, family possession, are extremely scarce. The way in which works of art were acquired, who collected them, how many of them were commissioned and how many simply inherited or given in dowries - questions of paramount importance in determining artistic taste and culture of the inhabitants of Hvar in the past - remain as a rule unanswered. Since even the scantiest of data in that field are very valuable, this short contribution deals with two of such sources, by now almost forgotten. One is a survey of paintings by the Franciscan scholar Donat Fabijanić, entitled: "Dipinti della citta di Lesina" and printed in Zadar in 1849. The other is entitled "Pitture antiche di Zara" (Parte I.), written by the scholar Josip Sabalić and printed also in Zadar in 1912.
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123730
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Publication date:
30.6.1997.
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