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Conservation-Restoration Work and Research on Two Altarpieces from the Churches of Our Lady of Carmel and Domino (All Saints) in Dubrovnik

The Church of St. George is located in the north part of the old town Buzet, on its highest point. Its interior is simple, longitudinal in shape with a raised shrine and subsequently added apse. Preliminary protection of the wall paintings in the church began in 2002 and was soon followed by a comprehensive conservation of the interior of the church, done entirely by the Croatian Conservation Institute.

The eighth issue of the Portal journal, annual scientific and professional publication of the Croatian Conservation Institute, features eleven papers presenting topics in cultural heritage protection. Seven of those are original scientific papers, and four are review articles. Ten are published in Croatian and one is in English. Attached to the articles is a CD containing the catalogue of the Institute’s conservation works in 2016, with 248 items listed.

The book’s author, Dr. Zoraida Demori Staničić provides a first systematic analysis of a body of icons that originated in Dalmatia from the 13th to 19th century, interpreting their role in the region’s religious and cultural life. These holy pictures, celebrated with a “high degree of veneration”, served as material strongholds for both personal and public devotions over the long centuries of the Middle Ages. As the most precious symbols of every community, icons became even more prominent during the Catholic Reformation, after the Council of Trent.