"Fool`s Gold Beauty" - exhibition of forgeries from the Police Museum collection
The purpose of the exibition of the forgeries from the collection of the Police Museum conveniently entitlet Fool`s Gold Beauty is to warn about the unscrupulousness of the black market intentionally aimed at deceiving well-intentioned, yet naive and inexpert art buyers.
Exhibition 'Dubrovnik, A Scarred City: The Deconstruction and Restoration of Dubrovnik 1991-2000' was opened on October 1st 2019 in the 2nd hall of the renovated Lazareti Complex as part of a program to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the start of the attack on Dubrovnik.
Mirko Ilić: The Second Before the Catastrophe – Comic Strip, Illustration and Design
With the exhibition Mirko Ilić: The Second Before the Catasrophe – Comic Strip, Illustration and Design curated by Marko Golub & Dejan Kršić Dubrovnik public will have a chance to find out why is Mirko Ilić after more than four decades still one of the most interesting graphic designers and illustrators and why he is a global star.
Dubrovnik is a small city with great accomplishments and rich history. It has birthed many interesting historic figures, which have spread his fame worldwide.
If you want to study famous Dubrovnik citizens through history, you have hit the right spot!
(Milan? – Šibenik, May 1429) Bonino di Jacopo da Milano belongs to the group of artists whose life and work connected the two Adriatic coasts. His successful seventeen-year career in Dalmatia, as well as his extant works, testify to the fact that he was a sculptor of great skill and ability, and that he acquired a great reputation in his new homeland. He is especially important because he brought the Lombard style of Italian Gothic art from his native city to the Croatian coast and because in all the cities that he worked in, he collaborated with local stonemasons and stonecutters.
(?, 12th c. – Dubrovnik, 1205) In 1198, after the Third Crusade ended in failure, Pope Innocent III sent letters throughout the Christendom calling for a new crusade to the Holy Land in order to free the Holy City of Jerusalem. Unable to pay the Venetians the full cost of transportation, in 1202 the Crusaders occupied Zadar in exchange for debt referral, and in 1203, with the help of Venice, they conquered Constantinople and established the Latin Empire (1204 – 1261) in the former territories of the Byzantine Empire.
(Évora, Portugal, 5 April 1517 – Dubrovnik, 16 May 1599)
A Latin poet whose real name was Isaia Koen, hailed from a wealthy family of Portuguese Jews. He was educated in Portugal and Spain. After being exiled he travelled through England, Belgium, Italy (Ferrara, Genova, Pescara, Ancona, Rim), spent a short period of time in Constantinople, and in 1558 he finally settled in Dubrovnik as an already prominent and respected poet, and stayed until the end of his life.
(Dubrovnik, 1536 – Dubrovnik, 1607)
Born in Dubrovnik in the patrician family, Dinko Ranjina received an excellent education in his native city, he learned Italian and was introduced to Italian poetry and classical sources, as well as the local tradition of Petrarchist poetry, which was later reflected in his poems.
(Dubrovnik, 6 February 1461 – Dubrovnik, 26 September 1501) The Renaissance poet Džore Držić was a prominent plebeian who started his education in Dubrovnik, and completed his humanist studies in law in Italy (he became a doctor of civil and canon law), and in 1487 he was ordained a priest. He was the brother of painter Vlaho Držić and uncle of the famous Marin Držić.
(J)ELENA PUCIĆ-SORKOČEVIĆ, née RANJINA (Dubrovnik, 18 June 1784 – Dubrovnik, 5 December 1865) As an only daughter, Elena Luisa Pozza-Sorgo was the last descendant of the old Ragusan patrician family of Ragnina. Her father Orsat was twice the Republic’s ambassador to Vienna. She received her first education in music and literature from her mother Marija, née Gučetić (Gozze) and her learned aunt Kata. She continued her education in Italy.