"Fool`s Gold Beauty" - exhibition of forgeries from the Police Museum collection
The purpose of the exibition of the forgeries from the collection of the Police Museum conveniently entitlet Fool`s Gold Beauty is to warn about the unscrupulousness of the black market intentionally aimed at deceiving well-intentioned, yet naive and inexpert art buyers.
Exhibition 'Dubrovnik, A Scarred City: The Deconstruction and Restoration of Dubrovnik 1991-2000' was opened on October 1st 2019 in the 2nd hall of the renovated Lazareti Complex as part of a program to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the start of the attack on Dubrovnik.
Mirko Ilić: The Second Before the Catastrophe – Comic Strip, Illustration and Design
With the exhibition Mirko Ilić: The Second Before the Catasrophe – Comic Strip, Illustration and Design curated by Marko Golub & Dejan Kršić Dubrovnik public will have a chance to find out why is Mirko Ilić after more than four decades still one of the most interesting graphic designers and illustrators and why he is a global star.
Dubrovnik is a small city with great accomplishments and rich history. It has birthed many interesting historic figures, which have spread his fame worldwide.
If you want to study famous Dubrovnik citizens through history, you have hit the right spot!
(Dubrovnik, c. 1505 – Dubrovnik, 1587) Nikola Nalješković, nicknamed Živon, was born in Dubrovnik in a wealthy plebeian merchant family between 1505 and 1508. Having lost his father to plague in 1527, he assumed family responsibilities as a young man but was unsuccessful as a merchant, which lead him into bankruptcy. He struggled with financial problems all his life, and he was a scholar in astronomy and mathematics.
(Cava de' Tirreni near Salerno, early 15th c.? – Naples, after 1455) Onofrio di Giordano della Cava could probably not even have imagined that the inhabitants and many visitors of Dubrovnik would continue to mention his name daily almost six centuries after his death. Namely, both east and west ends of Placa (Stradun) main street in Dubrovnik, have one Renaissance “Onofrio” fountain, so his is probably the most frequently mentioned personal name in Dubrovnik, because these fountains, besides bringing water to the city and serving as its decoration, have also become visual spatial references, i.e. places where people agree to meet.
(Dubrovnik, 12 March 1821 – Dubrovnik, 30 June 1882) Medo Pucić (Pozza) was a Dubrovnik patrician, writer and politician, one of the most prominent Ragusans of his time, and an important Croatian cultural and literary figure during the period of the Croatian national revival in the middle of the 19th century. He was born in Dubrovnik in 1821, where he finished primary school and continued his education in the territory of contemporary Austria. He studied in Venice at the Lyceum of St. Catherine, and then went on to study law in Padua and Vienna.
(Koločep, 28 April 1875 – San Vicente near Los Andes, 13 July 1941) As an adventurous child of poor parents, Pasko Baburica, or in Spanish Pascual Baburizza Soletich accumulated a significant life experience by the time he was seventeen years old. At age thirteen, he moved from his native Koločep to Trebinje, where he worked as an assistant in a convenience store, and since he was very hardworking and full of ambition, he spent all his free time reading books and learning Italian and German.
(Dubrovnik, c. 1440 – Dubrovnik, 18 August 1516) Just like the name of Nikola Božidarević is the symbol of Renaissance painting in Dubrovnik, so the name of Paskoje Mihov Miličević is the symbol of Renaissance architecture in Dubrovnik. Besides the high quality of the works they created and the common epoch they lived in, they are also connected by the fact that we know almost nothing of their origin and formative years.
(Dubrovnik, 24 August 1837 – Dubrovnik, 13 July 1921) Pero Čingrija was one of those striking figures whose social activities would leave a mark on any period. Thanks in large part to the fact that as a young man he participated in the political events of the then Kingdom of Dalmatia that was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his longevity, Čingrija was an active participant of political and social events throughout the entire second half of the 19th and the first two decades of the 20th century. We would, therefore, be right to say that not only was he a political figure, he was a true political leader.