Dubrovnik: History of Architecture and Urban Planning

ECTS: 5

Jasenka Gudelj and Ana Marinković, Department of Art History

30P (lectures) /15S (seminars)– 3 contact hours weekly; 45 contact hours total

Winter semester 2014/2015

Outcomes: Students will gain in-depth familiarity with architecture of Dubrovnik and its territory through examination of single buildings and urban structures. This will enable them to identify and understand processes leading to certain architectural and urban realisations as well as to establish building typology and interpret the notion of style. Students will also become acquainted with building techniques and materials, the role of transmission of the Antique and architectural theory of the period in the Adriatic rim.

Summary: Dubrovnik: urban and architectural history is an M.A. level course for Art History students. The objective of the course is to acquaint students with architectural heritage of the city of Dubrovnik from the Middle Ages until the 20th century. The examples of public, church and residential architecture are taken into examination with regard to the emergence and development of core ideas in the Western architectural tradition, enabling students to understand the relationship between architectural ideas and realisations and the cultural contexts in which they were articulated. This is an advanced seminar course, with a lecture followed by class discussion. If possible, a field trip to Dubrovnik will be organised.

Lectures:

1) Constantine Porphyrogenitus and the early Ragusan urban development;

local Pre-Romanesque church building types and the "Adrio-Byzantinism"

churches of patron saints as landmarks

2) Early Romanesque Benedictine architecture (Lokrum); High Romanesque

Cathedral complex and its archaeology

3) The medieval church of St Blaise and the city Loggia: Civic devotion, public

commissions, urban topography

4) The civic Statutes and the catastics: public space and Government's control; The aqueduct and public fountains as urban elements

5) Franciscan and Dominican friaries: the appearance of Gothic style,

architecture in Observant context

6) The Rectors palace and Sponza: Renaissance and Renescances of the Government's space; the problem of the „Gothic-Renaissance“ style

7) Otium and Negotium in the Renaissance Dubrovnik: the House and the Villa

8) The Shape of Fear: City Walls, Gates, Fortresses

9) Annus horribilis 1667: the City and the Eartquake; Rebuilding of the Cathedral: the Roman Connection

10) Early Modern Male and Female Spaces: Nunneries and the Jesuit complex

11) A Different Civic Identity: the 18th c. rebuilding of the church of Saint Blaise and the Loggia

12) After the Republic: the 19th and 20th c. urban transformations of Dubrovnik; residential architecture between tradition and modernism

13) student presentations

14) student presentations

15) final exams

E-learning: visual and other learning materials will be uploaded on the courseweb (Omega)

Exams: written 7-9 pages paper, in class-presentation, oral exam

Quality assurance: The course is structured in a manner to ensure a continuous evaluation of student work, strongly encouraging in-class participation. Each student must produce a 7-9 pages paper on a chosen subject relevant to the course and prepare an individual oral presentation with his/her own visual material to be presented in front of the class.

Readings:

  1. Robin Harris, Dubrovnik, a History, London, 2003.
  2. Nada Grujić, Dubrovnik, l'ancienne Raguse, Paris, 2007.

Additional readings (min. 5 titles depending on the language sills):

  1. Filip de Diversis, Opis slavnog grada Dubrovnika, ur. i prev. Zdenka Janeković Roemer. Zagreb: Dom i svijet, 2004.
  2. Serafino Razzi, Povijest Dubrovnika, prev. Iva Grgić i Stjepan Krasić. Dubrovnik: Matica Hrvatska – ogranak Dubrovnik, 2011.
  3. Cvito Fisković, Naši graditelji i kipariXV i XVI stoljeća u Dubrovniku. Zagreb: Matica hrvatska, 1947.
  4. Cvito Fisković, Prvi poznati dubrovački graditelji. Dubrovnik: JAZU, 1955
  5. Nada Grujić, Vrijeme ladanja, Dubrovnik, 2005.
  6. Nada Grujić, Ladanjska arhitektura dubrovačkog područja, Zagreb, 1991.
  7. Grujić, Nada, Kuća u gradu, Dubrovnik, 2013.
  8. Igor Fisković, Reljef renesansnog Dubrovnika, Dubrovnik, 1993.
  9. Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Barokne palače u Dubrovniku, Zagreb-Dubrovnik, 2001.
  10. Marija Planić-Lončarić, Planiranaizgradnja na području Dubrovačke Republike. Zagreb: Centar za povijesne znanosti, Odjel za povijestumjetnosti, 1980.
  11. Milan Prelog, „Dubrovački Statut i izgradnja grada (1272-1972),“ Peristil 14-15 (1971-1972): 81-94.
  12. Anđelko Badurina, Uloga franjevačkih samostana u urbanizaciji dubrovačkog područja. Zagreb: Institut za povijesne znanosti Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odjel za povijest umjetnosti i Kršćanska sadašnjost, 1990.
  13. Igor Fisković, „Prilozi poznavanju gotičkoga graditeljstva u Dubrovniku,“ Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti 35 (2011): 19-40.
  14. Ana Marinković, „Territorial Expansion of the Ragusan Commune/Republic and the Chruches of Its Patron Saints,“ Dubrovnik Annals 13 (2009), 7-23.
  15. Relja Seferović i Mara Stojan, „The Miracle of Water: Prolegomena to the Early Renaissance Aqueduct of Dubrovnik,“ Dubrovnik Annals 11 (2007, 49-84.
  16. Nada Grujić, „Onofrio di Giordano della Cava i Knežev dvor u Dubrovniku“, Renesansa i renesanse u umjetnosti Hrvatske, ur. P. Marković e J. Gudelj, Zagreb, 2008, 9-50.
  17. Jasenka Gudelj, „The King of Naples Emulates Salvia Postuma? The Arch of Castelnuovo in Naples and its Antique Model“, Dalmatia and the Mediterranean, A. Payne ed., Brill, Leiden, 2014, 426–456.
  18. Katarina Horvat-Levaj, „Tommaso Napoli u Dubrovniku“, u Umjetnički dodiri dviju jadranskih obala u 17. i 18. stoljeću, ur. V. Marković e I. Prijatelj-Pavičić, Split, 2007., 31-52.
  19. Katarina Horvat-Levaj, „Ilija Katičić u baroknoj obnovi Dubrovnika i Perasta – nove spoznaje o životu i djelu dubrovačkog graditelja i klesara“, Anali Zavoda za povijesne znansti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti u Dubrovniku, 44 (2006.) 189-218.
  20. Katarina Horvat-Levaj e R. Seferović, „Barokna obnova Kneževa dvora u Dubrovniku“, Radovi IPU, 27 (2003.), 163.-168 – „Baroque Restoration of the Rector's Palace in Dubrovnik“, Dubrovnik Annals (2006.), 87-122.
  21. Katarina Horvat-Levaj, „Francesco Cortese – projektant palače Zamanja u Dubrovniku (1669.)“, Peristil, 45 (2002.), 107-122.
  22. Jasenka Gudelj, Anita Ruso, „Tiskani traktati o arhitekturi u Dubrovniku“, Peristil, 56 (2013), 101-112.
  23. Jasenka Gudelj, “Henrico Zucalli in Rome: new archival evidence”, Kunstchronik, 1, (January 2014), 2-8.
  24. Tanja Trška Miklošić, „Neostvareni projekt isusovačke crkve i kolegija (1659.) u Dubrovniku“, Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti 33 (2009.),125–140.
  25. Vladimir Marković, „Pietro Passalacqua u Dubrovniku“, Peristil, 24 (1981.), 95-114.
  26. Sandra Uskoković, „Modernitet i tradicija u novijoj dubrovačkoj arhitekturi,“ Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti HAZU u Dubrovniku 50 (2012): 305-338.

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Assistant professor at the University of Zagreb, Jasenka Gudelj obtained her B.A. in Art History and Italian Language and Literature from University of Zagreb, where she also obtained MA in Art History in 2003. She obtained her PhD degree in History of Architecture at School for Advanced Studies, Venice, Italy, in 2008 (Doctor Europeus). She was a JFDP fellow at University of Pittsburgh in 2009 and postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Minerva research project Roma communis patria of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome, in 2012. Gudelj was a founder (with C. D. Armstrong) of the teaching project Architecture and the City in Central Europe in collaboration with University of Pittsburgh, endowed by the University of Zagreb Development fund. She has mentored two MA thesis that won Society of Art Historians of Croatian Annual Award (2013 and 2014) and a paper that won University of Zagreb Rector’s award (2014). She is a member of a standing committee on doctoral studies at the University of Zagreb.

Her main fields of interest are history of the early modern art and architecture, classical tradition and urban history, investigating especially the circulation of knowledge, its media and webs in the Adriatic region. She has published a number of scholarly articles and edited three books and authored two exhibitions on early modern architectural treatises (Dubrovnik, 2009 and Zagreb, 2012 – catalogue Arte and Marte, Books on Architecture in Zriniana, with D. Botica). Her forthcoming book, TheEuropean Renaissance of Antique Pula, explores the critical fortune of the antiquities in Pula in the Renaissance.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Books Authored, Co-Authored or Edited

  1. Costruire il dispositivo storico: tra fonti e strumenti, ed. J. Gudelj & P. Nicolin, Milano, 2006
  2. Renesansa i renesanse u umjetnosti Hrvatske (Renaissance and renesances in Croatia), ed. P. Marković & J. Gudelj, Zagreb, 2008
  3. Umjetnost i naručitelji (Art and its Patrons), ed. J. Gudelj, Zagreb, 2010.
  4. J. Gudelj, D. Botica, Arte et Marte, knjige o arhtiekturi u Zriniani (Arte and Marte, Books on Architecture in Zriniana), NSK, Zagreb, 2012.
  5. Europska renesansa antičke Pule (European Renaissance of Antique Pula), Zagreb, 2014 (forthcoming)

Articles

  1. Ljubo Karaman e i problemi dell’arte periferica, in: Arte e architettura, le cornici della storia, ed. F. Bardati & A. Rosellini, Milano, 273-284.
  2. Sarajevo, la citta cosmopolita alla turca, Citta & Storia, 1 (2007), 33-44
  3. Pellegrini e scalpellini: viaggio tra le antichità di Pola, Proceedings of the Conference La Dalmazia nelle relazioni di viaggiatori e pellegrini da Venezia tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento, Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2009, 234-243.
  4. Sarajevo austroungarica, Storia urbana, 120-121 (2009), 207-228.
  5. Ponuda kakva se ne odbija: narudžba Tizianove pale Luja Gučetića za franjevačku opservantsku crkvu u Anconi (An Offer Difficult to Decline: Ragusan Merchant Luigi Gozze and Titian's Altarpiece for the Franciscan Observant Church in Ancona), Umjetnost i naručitelji, ed. J. Gudelj, Zagreb, 2010, 79-81.
  6. Bramante, Serlio, Palladio: renesansni prikazi velikog antičkog kazališta u Puli (Bramante, Serlio, Palladio: Renaissance Drawings of the Large Roman Theatre in Pula), Prilozi povijesti umjetnosti u Dalmaciji, 42 (2011) ; 251-273.
  7. The King of Naples Emulates Salvia Postuma? The Arch of Castelnuovo in Naples and its Antique Model, in Dalmatia and the Mediterranean, A. Payne ed., Brill, Leiden, 2014, 426–456.
  8. Tiskani traktati o arhitekturi u Dubrovniku (Printed Treatises on Architecture in Dubrovnik, with A. Ruso), Peristil, 56 (2013), 101-112.
  9. Henrico Zucalli in Rome: new archival evidence, Kunstchronik, 1, January 2014, 2-8.
  10. The Triumph and the Threshold: Ciriaco d’Ancona and the Renaissance Discovery of the Ancient Arch, Roma moderna ed contemporanea, C. Conforti, G. Bonaccorso eds., (forthcoming)
  11. Architettura e diplomazia tra Roma e Dubrovnik: San Girolamo dei Croati e la cattedrale di Dubrovnik nel secondo Seicento, in Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, (forthcoming).
  12. Architectural Treatises and the East Adriatic Coast: Cultural Transfers and the Circulation of Knowledge in the Renaissance, in Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice ant its Territories, 1450-1750, Essays in HonourinHonorofDeborahHoward vol 2, N. Avcıoğlu, A. Sherman,Ashgate, 2014. (forthcoming)

ANA MARINKOVIĆ – CURRICULUM VITAE

Born in 1972 in Zagreb. 1989-1999 worked as a journalist, art critic, and cultural programme editor at the “Radio 101“ (Zagreb). 1997-1999 member of the editorial board of the “Biblioteka Psefizma“ at the Croatian Architects' Association.

Graduated art history and ethnology from the University of Zagreb in 2000, obtained MA in Medieval Studies in 2001 at the Central European Univeristy, and PhD in Medieval Studies in 2013 at the same university.

In 2003 received doctoral research grant from the Central European University for research in Rome, affiliated to Università di Roma Tre, Department of History, Geography and Anthropology.

In the period 2002-2004 conducted research in the Vatican Secret Archives for the project “Centre and Periphery: The Papal Penitentiary Registers and Central-Eastern Europe“ (2002-2007, head of the project Gerhard Jaritz).

Since 2007 holds the position of a teaching assistant at the Art History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, and a research assistant in the project “Figural Art in Dalmatia in the Late Middle Ages“ (Ministry of Sciences, Education and Sports,head of the project Igor Fisković). Teaching the courses „Written Sources for Art History of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period“, „Written Sources for Art History II: Reconstruction of the Liturgical Space of Churches on the Eastern Adriatic,“ „Funerary Monuments (11th-15th c.),“ and „Iconography of the Mendicant Orders (13th-16th c.).“

Participated in fifteen international conferences (Italy, Great Britain, Norway, Hungary, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia), published over a dozen papers and book chapters, co-edited three volumes.

Collaborates with the Department for Cultural Heritage Preservation (Croatian Ministry of Culture) and the Croatian Conservation Institute on several projects related to Dubrovnik architectural heritage (archival work).

Since 2014 member of Management Committee of COST Action “New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe“ (ISCH COST Action IS1301).

Actual president of the Croatian Hagiography Society “Hagiotheca,“ member of the organising committee of conference series „Dani Cvita Fiskovića“.

Qualifications:

BA Art History / Ethnology (2000)

MA “The Royal Chapel of King Coloman in the Monastery of St Mary in Zadar,“ supervisors Jozsef Laszlowszky and Neven Budak, obtained at the Central European University in Budapest in 2001.

PhD „The Birth and the Agents of an Episcopal Civic Cult: St John of Trogir (12th - 15th c.),“ supervisor Gábor Klaniczay, obtained at the Central European University in 2013.

Projects – team member:

  • “Pontes Adriatici: Mreža kulturnih razmjena na Jadranu” [The Network of Cultural Exchange on the Adriatic] (head of the project Igor Fisković) 2013-2014, team member;
  • “Figural Art in Dalmatia in the Late Middle Ages“ (head of the project Igor Fisković) 2007-2013, team member;
  • “Centre and Periphery: The Papal Penitentiary Registers and Central-Eastern Europe“ (head of the project Gerhard Jaritz) 2002-2007, team member.

Other activities:

member of editorial board: Bibliotheca Hagiotheca (publications of Croatian Hagiography Society)

organization of conferences: Hagiotheca I – Hagiology: Historiography, Sources, and Methods (Dubrovnik, 2006); Coping withViolence, and the MedievalClergy (Dubrovnik, 2008); Hagiotheca II –Identity and Alterity in the Making and Practice of Cults (Split, 2008); Hagiotheca III – Saintly Bishops and Bishops’ Saints (Poreč, 2010); Hagiotheca IV – Cuius patrocinio tota gaudet regio: Saints’ Cults and the Dynamics of Regional Cohesion (Dubrovnik, 2012)

memberships: Croatian Hagiography Society “Hagiotheca“ (president), Hagiography Society, Society of Croatian Art Historians