International Conference
DISCOVERING DALMATIA
Dalmatia in 18th and 19th century travelogues, pictures and photographs
Organized by
Institute of Art History – Centre Cvito Fiskovic Split
18th-23rd May 2015
Ethnographic Museum, Severova 1, Split

PROGRAMME

Thursday, May 21
Ethnographic Museum

9.00
Registration

10.00
Welcoming remarks

10.30
1st session
Moderators:
Cvijeta Pavlovic, Patrick Levacic

10.30
Elke Katharina Wittich
On towns and people.
Illustrations in reports on Dalmatia at the turn of the 18th century

10.55
Jean-Pierre Caillet
Le premier regard d'un humaniste français sur l'Istrie et la Dalmatie: le récit du voyage de Jacob Spon, 1678

11.20
Valery Shevchenko
Clérisseau, l'executeur principal des dessins pour la publication de Robert Adam, 1764

11.45
Gabrijela Vidan
La Dalmatie dans le Grand Tour Européen: espace limitrophe de l'Empire ottoman, sa fonction de pays-relais

12.10-12.40
Coffee Break

12.40 -13.10
Discussion

13.30
Lunch Break

16.00
2nd session
Moderators:
Gabrijela Vidan, Milan Pelc

16.00
Cvijeta Pavlović
Correctio descriptiae: Lovri? vs. Fortis

16.25
Patrick Levacic
Humour in French travelogues through Dalmatia

16.50
Josko Zaninovic
Antonia Tomic
Drniš in the eyes of travel writers in 18th and 19th century

17.15
Flora Turner Vu?eti?
The painted coast

17.40 – 18.10
Discussion

Friday, May 22
Ethnographic Museum

9.30
3rd session
Moderators:
Flora Turner Vucetic, Josip Vrandecic

9.30
Andrej Zmegac
De Traux's description of Dalmatia

9.55
Ivana Popovic
Dalmatian monuments in German 19th century travel-records – Ida von Düringsfeld

10.20
Natasa Ivanovic
Everywhere palm trees, gigantic aloe in enormous amount … this is Dalmatia!

10.45-11.15
Coffee Break

11.15
Irena Krasevac
Dalmatian travels of Emil Jakob Schindler

11.50
Zoraida Demori Staničić
T. G. Jackson and the drawings of icons in Hvar Cathedral

11.50-12.20
Discussion

12.30
Lunch Break

16.30
4th session
Moderators:
Elke Katharina Wittich, Josko Belamaric

16.30
Josip Vrandecic
Masaryk in Split

16.55
Daniela Calciu
East of Grand Tour

16.55
Sanja Zaja Vrbica
Dubrovnik area travelogues of the Archduke Ludwig Salvator von Habsburg (1847-1915)

17.20
Dragan Damjanovic
Politics, photography and architecture – The First Viennese University Trip (Erste Wiener Universitätsreise) and Dalmatian monuments

17.45
Ivana Vlaic
Analog urbanism as discourse: Robert Adam and the urban space in contemporary Split

18.10 – 18.40
Discussion

Saturday, May 23
Ethnographic Museum, Diocletian's Palace, Split

9.30 – 12.30
Goran Nikšić
Walking tour in Diocletian's Palace

12.30 – 13.30
Summary of the Conference

13.30. – 14.30
Closing reception

The conference stem from the research project Dalmatia – a destination of the European Grand Tour in the 18th and the 19th century (2014-2017) of the Institute of Art History, under the aegis of the Croatian Science Foundation.