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Meštrović, Marun, Gunjača and History of Croats

Duško Kečkemet ; Hr, Split, Trogirska 6


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str. 261-268

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The amater archaeologist, Father Lujo Marun, was among the first to recognise the artistic tairmt of the young shepherd, Jvan Meš/rović. In the First Museum of Croatian An/iquities which he established in Knin, he also kept the Jleštrović's earliest, boyhood, works.
Later on, Meštrović suggested to Marun to house the Museum in the Knin fortress, together with his studio, hOlliever Ihis has never came true.
For the Musettm, Mešlrović produced the slane sculpture ofthe History ofIhe Croats, bul since the museum bUilding was not buill, il was temporarily takim by the king Aleksandar, who placed the seulpture in his court garden in Belgrade.
At the time of the Second World War the then manager of the Old-Croatian Museum, Dr. Stjepan Cunjača, intended to locate the museum firstly in Klis, them within the walls of the Diocletian Palace. Eventually, the building of the Croatian Archaeological Monuments Museum was built at Meje, in Split.
Meštrović stated several times that be had donated the History of the Croats to the museum, and only lended it to the king, bowever all the efforts of the museum managers, firstly Dr. Stjepan Gunjača, and then Duje Jelovina, were in vain. The newly built museum building houses but a gypsum model of this symbolic

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Hrčak ID:

83094

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/83094

Datum izdavanja:

24.10.2003.

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