Island of Mljet, shipwreck with Iznik pottery

The ship of Venetian origin was discovered in 2006 in the Shallows of St. Paul off the coast of Mljet. Ottoman pottery from the town of Iznik is part of the outstanding archaeological finds from the site.

St. Nicholas Fortress in Šibenik

In 2017, St. Nicholas Fortress in Šibenik was added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site list

Tapestry «July-August» from the Zagreb Archdiocese

Extremely valuable cycle of six tapestries "Months in the Year" from 1710 was the gift from the Empress Maria Theresa to Franjo Thauszy, Bishop of Zagreb

Polyptych of St. Martin

Polyptych dedicated to St. Martin for the cathedral of St. Anastasia in Zadar is the work of Vittore Carpaccio, a master painter of the Italian Renaissance, from the 15th century

Polyptych of St. Bernardino of Siena

Polyptych of St. Bernardino of Sienna from the church of St. Bernardino in Kampor is the work of brothers Antonio and Bartolomeo Vivarini from 1458

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During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the completed conservation and restoration of the altar of the Three Kings from the Parish Church of Mary Magdalene in Čazma will be presented.

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As the proud holder of the European Capital of Culture title for 2020, the City of Rijeka began with preparation of a series of projects aimed at cultural and overall advancement of the city. One of the projects is an exhibition by the Rijeka City Museum that will include the presentation of paintings by brothers Klimt and F. Matsch from the Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka. To ensure that the paintings are exhibited in optimal condition, Croatian Conservation Institute will dismount them and begin with conservation research. By 2020 complete conservation will be finished.

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During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the work on the pulpit, a donation from Franjo Vlahović, a canon from Čazma, from 1761, will be completed. This will bring to an end the many years of conservation and restoration of the Baroque inventory of the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in Kloštar Ivanić.

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During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, a four-year program of the Croatian Conservation Institute will be presented. The program will, through an interdisciplinary approach, include archival, historical and art research, restoration research and all the work that still needs to be carried out, including the reconstruction of the church so it can be properly valorized and presented to the public.

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During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the completed conservation and restoration of the polyptych of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary from the Church of St. Mary on the island of Šipan will be presented.

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During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the results of archaeological research of the former Benedictine monastery of St. Margaret in Bijela will be presented. The remains of the monastery are a rare example of a Benedictine community in Medieval Slavonia. The research conducted on the site will help further the knowledge on religious complexes, and its conservation and presentation will enrich the cultural landscape of Western Papuk.

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The former palace of the Sorkočević Family, today the Bishop’s Palace, is located in the southeast part of Dubrovnik, in the Pustijerna quarter. The Palace is located opposite the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It used to be the largest private residential building in the city, and, in the 19th century, when it became the property of the Bishop of Dubrovnik, the Palace further emphasised the ecclesiastical centre in the city.

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In the European Year of Cultural Heritage results of the finished phase of archaeological research of shipwreck with Iznik pottery cargo from the Shallows of St. Paul will be presented.

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During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Croatian Conservation Institute is organising an exhibition with two themes - the 60th anniversary of the Zadar Conservation workshop, and the research, conservation and restoration of the polyptych of St. Martin by Vittore Carpaccio from the Cathedral of St. Anastasia in Zadar.

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During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, Croatian Conservation Institute presents the results of the conservation and restoration research of the Sorkočević Summerhouse, its wall paintings and stone inventory. The work was carried out as part of the "Skala - A New Cultural Tourism Destination in Komolac" project funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

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Dubrovnik, 30. May 2018, 20:30

During the European Year of Cultural Heritage, the results of research on two altars from the Elaphiti Islands (Koločep and Lopud) will be presented at the "Hidden Trecento" exhibition installation.

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Events organized by the Croatian Conservation Institute

'Portal' Journal

Postal

Croatian Conservation Institute's periodical, Portal, is a peer-reviewed academic journal published annually since 2010. Directed at presenting research and professional papers on investigations, treatments, results, theoretical reflections and historical overviews, Portal is open to all those who wish to contribute, professionally and scholarly, to the reflection and promotion of art conservation and restoration. Owing to its comprehensive abstracts in English, the basic content of each paper is also available to international experts.

International Projects

Tracing the Art of the Straub Family

The Claustra Project – “Stone Barriers of the Roman Empire” Approved by the IPA Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Slovenia-Croatia

EwaGlos – European Illustrated Glossary for Conservation Terms of Wall Painting and Architectonic Surfaces

Selected Topics

Secrets of Colours. A 15th-Century Handbook on the Preparation of Paints

Segreti per colori [Secrets of colours] is a collection of recipes for the preparation of paints, translated into Croatian for the first time in this Croatian Conservation Institute’s edition. The text, also known as the Bologna Manuscript, is a valuable source of insight into the technology of paint manufacture in the late Middle Ages.

 
Iznik – Ottoman Pottery from the Depths of the Adriatic

The bilingual catalogue was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Mimara Museum (May 18th – Sep 13th, 2015) and the Ethnographic Museum in Dubrovnik (Jul 15th – Sep 30th, 2016). The exhibition raised much interest among both the general and international professional public, presenting valuable archaeological material from a merchant ship that sank in the late 16th century in the Sveti Pavao shallows, off the island of Mljet.

 
The Renovation of St. James's Cathedral in Šibeniksvjakov_blog

Croatian Conservation Institute began in 2012 with the documenting, investigating and conservation trials on the stone sculpture in the interior of the presbytery and the main apse of St. James’s Cathedral in Šibenik. A major architectural achievement of the 15th and 16th century in Croatia, the Cathedral of Šibenik has won its global recognition in 2000, when it was entered in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Church of St. Mark in Zagreb: architecture, history, conservation

svmarko_mThe collection of six papers on the history of St. Mark’s Church was published to mark the completion of its year-long renovation. Croatian Conservation Institute, which supervised the larger part of the renovation, initiated the monograph, aiming to compile all existing insights into the construction history of the church, which revealed it to be a particularly multi-layered monument.

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