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‎Stones of Zadar. The Capital of Venetian Dalmatia‎

‎, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 207, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:14 b/w, 161 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503615226.‎

‎Summary This book explores the transformation of Zadar's architectural and visual culture at the dawn of the early modern era. Once a powerful medieval commune, Zadar was absorbed into the Venetian Republic just as Ottoman forces pressed through the Dalmatian hinterland. Caught between two worlds and facing economic decline, the city nonetheless remained a vibrant cultural hub. Through the networks of builders, sculptors, and painters active across Dalmatia, Venice, Lombardy, and the Marche, Zadar's elites embraced humanist ideals and reshaped their artistic practices. The result was a distinctive and sometimes unconventional reinterpretation of classical forms, visible above all in sculpture and architectural decoration-the 'Renaissance stones' of Zadar. The study connects these fragmentary remains into a coherent whole, situating them within the broader Venetian sphere while reading them in their immediate social and cultural contexts. It offers a new understanding of how Renaissance art developed on the Adriatic frontier. TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword, Jasenka Gudelj Introduction: In between and on the Edge? The Spatial and Temporal Setting Material and Interpretative Issues: Fragmentation and Historiographical Incommunicability Cultural Practices and Forms of Patronage From Thriving Medieval City to a Fortress: Socio-Economic Transitions Resetting Time: Zadar Humanist Circles Strategies of State, Civic, and Family Patronage Collective, Familial, and Individual Patronage Trajectories of Style: Production and Protagonists Bulk Cargo: The 15th-Century Lapidarium Trajectories of Style: Protagonists in the Long 15th Century Variations of Classical Vocabulary in the 16th Century The Early-17th-Century Decline of Local Sculpture Epilogue The Rise and the Fall of Zadar Renaissance Architectural and Sculptural Production Appendix: Fortuna Critica and Some Methodological Remarks Archival Sources and Bibliography Index of Places Index of Names‎