Croatia9 Zadar3

1. CROATIA 9 Zadar 3

2. Boasting an historic old town of Roman ruins, medieval churches, cosmopolitan cafes and quality museums set on a small peninsula, Zadar is an intriguing city. It’s not too crowded, it’s not overrun with tourists and its two unique attractions – the sound-and-light spectacle of the Sea Organ and the Sun Salutation – need to be seen and heard to be believed Coat of Arms of Zadar Saint Chrysogonus

3. St Chrysogonus church A three-nave basilica with a lavishly decorated semicircular apse, in the Romanesque style, was named after Saint Chrysogonus the martyr, a patron saint of Zadar

4. The basilica is a Romanesque building erected in the same period and with the same artistic forms as the cathedral. It was consecrated in 1175

6. Chrysogonus is a Roman Catholic saint and martyr of ancient Rome, (he was a Roman knight of the 4th c. A.D. at the time of Emperor Diocletian), a patron saint of Zadar

7. Consecrated in 1175, this church is a superb example of Italian Romanesque art, particularly the apse and lateral façade. The rows of blind arches and the series of fine columns suggest the influence of Lombardian and Tuscan artists. On St Chrysogonus’ square is a statue of PetarZoranić

8. St Chrysogonus’ square

9. Petar Zoranić (1508 - 1569) was a Croatian Renaissance writer from Zadar

10. Petar Zoranić, the writer of the first novel in Croatian

11. The 11th century church of St Mary (Sv Marija), with bell tower

12. It is believed that the Convent of St. Mary was founded by a noble woman Čika from Zadar. The big three-nave church was constructed in 1091 in the early Romanesque style

13. It´s most beautiful part in the bell-tower, in it´s original version of a Romanesque style of, so called, Lombardian type

14. Reliquary casket of St. Chrysogonus. Venice and Zadar, 1326

15. Within the structure to the church of St. Mary, or more specfically her monastery, whose property was Heavily damaged during the Second World War a Representative exhibition was formed in 1972 - the Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art, one of the most worth-while exhibitions in Croatia, popularly called "The Gold and Silver of Zadar" Shrine of St. Mary Magdalene jaw

16. Crown found in the shrine of Saint Simeon in Zadar (Zara), probably donated by King Louis the Great or Queen Mary in the late 14th century

17. The permanent exhibition "Gold and Silver of Zadar"

18. Gold and Silver of Zadar The permanent exhibition of the St.Mary church´s which contains objects that date from the 8th century, is one of the most valuable ones in Croatia Bust reliquary of the Pope Sixtus I

19. The exhibition "Gold and Silver of Zadar", initiated in 1951 by the Croatian writer MiroslavKrleza, was transformed in 1976 into a permanent display of the Permanent Exhibition of Ecclesiastic Art in the Benedictine Convent of Saint Mary in Zadar, one of the first capital buildings of Croatian culture

20. The permanent exhibition "Gold and Silver of Zadar"

22. Crucifix, Catarino Italian painter, Venetian school (known 1362-1382 in Venice)

23. Crucifix, Catarino Italian painter, Venetian school (details)

24. The painting of St. Anthony the Abbot in Glory, St. Blaise and St. Apollonia dated 1625 Relief in the Convent of St. Mary

27. The Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art – The Gold and Silver of Zadar

28. The permanent exhibition "Gold and Silver of Zadar"

29. A Gothic portal, adorned by reliefs, from the 14th c. dominates the facade of the Church of St. Michael (14th-century) A relief on the portal shows St. Michael flanked by St. Anastasia and St. Chrysogonus.

31. Krešimir Ćosić Hall is new multi-use indoor arena

33. Monastery of St. Francis of Assisi, Zadar, - bell tower alley

34. St Francis church and Franciscan monastery The oldest Dalmatian church built in the Gothic style (1283). It represents a type of, so called, Gothic monastic church characterized by a single nave with a raised shrine Monastery of St. Francis of Assisi

35. St Francis church and Franciscan monastery South from the church there is also a Renaissance cloister built in 1556, with a rich library

36. Renaissance cloister built in 1556

37. Church of St. Francis of Assisi, Zadar In a decorated treasury next to the sacristy, there are collected works of art of the church with a great number of exhibits of which the most valuable is a crucifixion painted from the 12th

38. Crucifixion painted from the 12th c. FraneSalghetti-Drioli (1811-1877)

39. Gothic choir stalls of the former sanctuary 1394 Choir precinct of the church of St Francis, Zadar, carved by Giovannida Sansepolcro, c . 1394–5, detail of St Francis Receiving the Stigmata

40. Dujam Vučković, c.1439 Mother of Christ with Child

42. Ivan Petrov, The UgljanPolyptych, c1450 The painter Ivan Petrov from Milan is first mentioned in Dalmatia on January 3rd 1429

45. Ivan Petrov, The UgljanPolyptych, c1450 (Details)

50. The sacristy, which follows the choir stalls, is very important for the Croatian history because it was there that the peace was made between the Venetian Republic and Hungarian-Croatian king Ludovik Anžuvinac (King Louis the Great of Hungary), and by that act the Venetians gave up their pretensions to Dalmatia