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Project on the watchmaking tradition in Istro-Veneto and Dalmatia concluded
Appointment with the history of tower clockmaking in the Pesarina Valley at the Italian Community of Poreč, with the presentation of the results of the project “The time of the Serenissima – Historical-cultural and touristic valorization of the watchmaking tradition in the Istro-Veneto” and of the volume “The time of the Serenissima. Tower Clocks in the Istro-Veneto and in Dalmatia, 2nd phase: integration and valorization of historical research”, published by the Italian Community of Poreč. The project, led by the association of Poreč, was realized with the contribution of the Veneto Region, in collaboration with the Italian Community “Fulvio...
Dante, Giotto and the Istrian Peninsula
Istrian art of the late 2021th and early XNUMXth centuries offers a wealth of works that present links with the production of the great artists of the time. Various celebrations and important anniversaries - such as the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante which occurs in this XNUMX that is about to end - can be an opportunity to focus on the art of the era in which people who profoundly influenced Humanism lived; Giotto and Dante for example, the first in the figurative arts, the second for his works that make him the Father of the Italian language. But did Giotto and Dante know each other? There is no certain evidence in the sources, but analyzing the Divine Comedy and the rich...
Lazar de Pari, the Triestine Master of the Lions of San Marco
"For the first time, a series of heraldic works can be attributed to an important sculptor." This is the result of important studies and research dedicated to the works located in Muggia, Parenzo and Umago. In Istria, almost two hundred sculpted lions of San Marco are known. Together with some wooden examples, or nineteenth-century marble ones, they are proudly displayed on the facades of public buildings, towers, bell towers, wellheads... But who are the Masters who created them? In which workshop did they take shape? In this article, the art historian and archaeologist Marino Baldini tells the readers of La Voce what has emerged in reference to three lions, those of Muggia, Parenzo and Umago. A...
Polesini Archive, a precious source
The publication was presented as part of the collaboration between the Museum of the Poreč Territory and the Adriatic Coordination (Bologna), which deals with the protection of historical, artistic and literary memories of Istria, Rijeka and Dalmatia. The important publication “Archivio Polesini – sources for the history of Parenzo” by the authors Elena Uljančić, Gaetano Benčić and Elisabeth Foroni, who spoke about the publication, was presented at the Museum of the Poreč Territory. The initiative is the result of the long-standing collaboration between the institution in Parenzo and the Adriatic Coordination, an association based in Bologna, chaired by...
