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The Galić Art Salon was formally opened in 1924 as a private initiative by the craftsman Ivan Galić (1884–1961). Following a purchase agreement in 1961, it transitioned to the ownership of the city and municipality of Split. Subsequently, it was entrusted to ULUH’s Subsidiary for Dalmatia, remaining under the auspices of this art association and …

During the Early Modern Period, mainly in the time of the Veneto-Ottoman wars in the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, the backbone of Venetian Trans-Adriatic armed forces were units called Fanti oltramarini and Croati a cavallo, whose soldiers were recruited primarily from the Venetian acquisitions stretching from Istria to Albania and Greece. In this article, …

The paper is based on the reports of the State Security of socialist Yugoslavia reporting on the visits of foreign warships to the coastal town of Split during the 1970s and 1980s. During this phase of the Cold War and bloc division, Yugoslavia was a non-bloccountry and an important member of the Non-aligned movement. During …

In this paper, the stylistic and iconographic analysis of a console with a depiction of a lion, which was installed as spolia on the gable of the Mangjer house in Split, was performed. The house was situated at the intersection of Manđerova Street andBribirska Street. After its demolition, the console was transferred to the Monastery …

The authors present some results of the research on the toponymy of Split as the topic of a scientific project carried out at the Academy of Arts, University of Split. Several toponyms are presented, recorded in the documents but mostly forgotten, some of them preserved in the form of the names of streets. The authors …