ACTIVITIES:

• Exhibitions:
  • Icons from the 17th to the 18th centuries, 1987

Head of the Collection: Ljiljana Ivusic, Senior Curator

The Dubrovnik Museum's collection of icons includes some three hundred valuable works ranging in date and style from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The collection reflects the heterogeneous stylistic development of this form of pictorial expression. One notices the intertwining of Byzantine influence and western reflections. The works by native painters were largely influenced by eastern models and feature elements characteristic of the Veneto-Cretan school of icon painting. The later years, i.e. the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries saw the appearance of the Boka Kotorska school of icon painting that was characterised by a decadent and crude manner of painting. Appearing at this time were also works from the studios of the Russian school of icon painting that were based on series production. In 1977, the Croatian Museum Council decided to allocate to the Dubrovnik Museum a collection of icons that were up to then housed in the Dubrovnik Art Gallery. The collection was transferred in 1979.

• The Most Merciful Virgin - Vladimirska
• Holy Virgin with Christ and Prophets
• Holy Virgin with Jesus and Saints
• Holy Virgin with Christ
• Deizis

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