{"id":30375,"date":"2026-03-23T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/?post_type=exhibition&p=30375"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:23:22","slug":"chiaro-scuro","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/ekultura.hr\/en\/exhibition\/records-of-togetherness-and-intimacy\/chiaro-scuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiaro-scuro photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NEVI\u0110ANE (The island of Pa\u0161man, Zadar archipelago)
<\/strong>On the sunny side of the street.

Nino Vrani\u0107, 1979.

Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of the Conservation Department in Zadar
<\/strong>Inv. No. 27784, neg. 9289B<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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KOPRIVNI\u010cKI IVANEC (Koprivnica, The area along the Drava River, northern part of Croatia)
Parish Church of St Johan the Baptist
Going to the mass<\/em>
<\/strong>In harmony with the black and white contrast of the women’s local costume, there is a scene of a woman going to mass, against a record from the middle of the 17th century that records: “The people in that parish are cruel, careless and godless and do not care about sermons and the Holy Mass, and are disobedient to pastor and to other members of the church. They want to seize church property by force. A few years ago, a few of them did not hesitate to drive their pastor out of the village, hitting him five times with a club. Even now, they are publicly protesting against the captain of Koprivnica, who is their landlord.”

Nino Vrani\u0107, 1965.

Ministry of Culture and Media og the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of cultural heritage
<\/strong>Inv. No. 28753, neg. II-6720<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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RIJEKA<\/strong>
\u0160i\u0161mi\u0161a Street in the Old Town as the frame of a carefree childhood. Such a situation will soon become a thing of the past, as the old city core will undergo considerable renovation and construction in the coming decades, and childhood will grow into maturity.

Valentin \u0160erak, 1954.

Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of the Conservation Department in Rijeka
<\/strong>Inv. No. 4595, neg. II-912<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DUBROVNIK
<\/strong>Detail of the staircase at the Jesuits

Nenad Gattin, 1970.

Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of the Conservation Department in Dubrovnik<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DUBROVNIK
Detail of Sponza Palace, view from the balustrade of the Church of St. Blaise (St. Blaise – the patron saint of Dubrovnik)
<\/strong>Sponza Palace, or Divona, is a Gothic-Renaissance palace built by the local master Paskoje Mili\u010devi\u0107 and the Andriji\u0107 brothers from Kor\u010dula in the period between 1516 and 1520.

To\u0161o Dabac, 1968.<\/strong>

Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of the Conservation Department in Dubrovnik<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DUBROVNIK
Main fa\u00e7ade of the cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – the Our Lady
<\/strong>The current baroque cathedral was built in the period from 1671 to 1713 on the site of a former Byzantine and Romanesque cathedral, destroyed in the great earthquake of 1667.
According to the legend, the Romanesque cathedral from the 12th century was built with the money of the English king Richard I the Lionheart, who survived a shipwreck not far from Lokrum island, after returning from the Third Crusade in 1192. As a sign of gratitude, he gave 100,000 ducats, which was a lot of money at the time. It was the first Romanesque Basilica in the eastern Adriatic and it influenced church architecture in the entire region.

To\u0161o Dabac, 1970.

Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of the Conservation Department in Dubrovnik<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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SPLIT
The vestibule
<\/em>of the ancient mausoleum (tomb from the beginning of the 4th century) within the palace of Emperor Diocletian, and from the time of the estabilishment of Christianity, also nowdays, the vestibule of the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, popularly known as the Chatedral of St. Dujma (sr. Duje). Today’s Split Chatedral thus bears the epithet of the oldest cathedral in the world.<\/strong>

\u017divko Ba\u010di\u0107, 2007.<\/strong>

Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of the Conservation Department in Split<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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DUBRAVA (Omi\u0161)
Church of Saint Luke
<\/strong>Detail of a building built continuously from the 11th to the 19th century with broken stone in mortar, in the shape of a Latin cross with a conical dome in the middle. In the interior, on the altar partition, there are inscriptions in Bosnian, an authentic and distinctive script created in medieval Bosnia and the surrounding areas.

\u017divko Ba\u010di\u0107, 2006.

Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia
Photo archive of the Conservation Department in Split<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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