Activities

Lectures Conferences Workshops and seminars

Lectures

  • 02/12/2024 - Jasenka Gudelj, Ancient Pola in Reflections of Renaissance Architectural Culture, University of Pula
file pdf 23/09/2024 - Olha Zarechnyuk, Becoming a Heritage City: Habsburg Lviv and Its Preservationists 350 KB
  • 16/03/2023 - Petar Strunje, Vera Costantini, Venezia, Spalato e l’istituzione del Fontego dei Turchi, Museo di storia naturale di Venezia Giancarlo Ligabue
  • 11/12/2020 - Valentina Sapienza, presentation of the project ‘Garzoni: Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice (16th-18th centuries)’

Conferences

  • 06/10/2025 - Dani Cvita Fiskovića - Orebić
    Petar Strunje participated at the regional conference XIX Dani Cvita Fiskovića: Umjetnost i transformacije prirode [Art and Transformations of Nature] with the paper ‘Protoindustrial Landscape of the Pantan Watermills’ in Orebić, Croatia.
  • 12/09/2025 - AISU Palermo
    AdriArchCult members Laris Borić, Rebecca Johnson, Ana Marinković, and Petar Strunje presented their papers at the project-organised panel 'Marking Urban Space: Territorialisation in the Eastern Adriatic (1400–1800)' at the AISU Biennial Conference in Palermo: The Crossroad City.
    Programme 12/09/2025
  • 03/07/2025 - Society of Renaissance Studies Biennial Conference - Bristol
    AdriArchCult and AdriContArch team members presented their papers at two project-related panels 'Around and Beyond the Adriatic: Triangulating Artistic Interconnections (1400-1750)' held at the SRS Biennial Conference: Inteconnections, in Bristol.
  • 21/05/2025 - WOMEN, SPACES, FREEDOM - Vicenza
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper 'Women and Stonemasons: The 15th-Century Building Enterprise of Giorgio Dalmata and Elisabetta da Monte' at the 36th International Seminar on Architectural History 'WOMEN, SPACES, FREEDOM. Architecture and the Female Universe in the Renaissance', held in Vicenca at the Palladio Museum.
  • 02/05/2025 - Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference - Atlanta
    Cristiano Guarneri and Petar Strunje presented their papers at the AdriArchCult panel 'Architectural Culture of Public Health and the Early Modern Adriatic' chaired by Jasenka Gudelj at the Society of Architectural Historians 78th Annual International Conference, held in Atlanta.
  • 13/12/2024 - Lasting Possessions: Old Masters Collections Across Provenance Research and Beyond - Zagreb
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper 'Disseminating Knowledge on the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic Architectural Culture' at the conference Lasting Possessions: Old Masters Collections Across Provenance Research and Beyond held at the Library of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, organised by the HRZZ project ZagArtColl - Provenance Research on Artwork in Zagreb Collections.
  • 18/11/2024 - Centri artistici e dinamiche migratorie a confronto tra Quattro e Cinquecento - Rome
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper 'Le carriere fluttuanti e il mercato architettonico galleggiante: le maestranze estadriatiche e i centri artistici del Rinascimento' at the seminar 'Centri artistici e dinamiche migratorie a confronto tra Quattro e Cinquecento' at the Swiss Institute in Rome, organised by the FNS-funded project Building a Renaissance. Networks of Artists and Patrons from Ticino and Lombardy in Rome (1417-1527).
  • 25/10/2024 - Cathedral of Pićan - Pićan
    Jasenka Gudelj presented her paper on the monumentalisation of Pićan Cathedral in Istria and the role of bishops Antonio Zara and Giuseppe Bonifacio Ceccoti , while Elvis Orbanić presented his paper on Bishop Antonio Zara from Aquileia at the scientific colloquium on the cathedral of Pićan (Croatia) held there.
  • 29/06/2024 - Il lessico latino dall’umanesimo all’età moderna - Frascati
    Neven Jovanović presented the paper 'Architectural Terms in a Neo-Latin Collection' at the conference Il lessico latino dall’umanesimo all’età moderna, organised by the Accademia Vivarium Novum in Frascati.
  • 21/06/2024 - CIEPO 25 - Tirana
    Petar Strunje presented the paper 'Bridging the Gap: Venetian and Ottoman Infrastructural Investments into the Scala di Spalato' at the 25th Symposium of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, organised at the European University of Tirana.
  • 20/06/2024 - European Architectural History Network - Athens
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper 'Colonialities of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic Architecture: Between Historiography and Territorialisation' at the 8th International Conference of European Architectural History Network, in Athens.
  • 21/03/2024 - Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting - Chicago
    Neven Jovanović, Petar Strunje, and Jasenka Gudelj presented their papers at the panel on the Eastern Adriatic, part of the 'All'Antica: Antique Reception and Visual Arts series' organised by Kathleen Christian and Cammy Brothers at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference in Chicago.
  • 09/03/2024 - San Giorgio in Vado a Cividale del Friuli: storia e patrimonio artistico - Cividale del Friuli
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper 'La chiesa di San Francesco a Cherso' at the conference San Giorgio in Vado a Cividale del Friuli: storia e patrimonio artistico, in Cividale del Friuli organised by the University of Udine and Centro internazionale studi monastici.
  • 14/12/2023 - Chiese di Venezia. Nuove prospettive di ricerca. 11: San Giovanni in Bragora: chiesa, campo, comunità - Venice
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper 'Il fonte battesimale di San Giovanni in Bragora: un modello fortunato' at the conference Chiese di Venezia. Nuove prospettive di ricerca. 11: San Giovanni in Bragora: chiesa, campo, comunità, organised by Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the church of San Giovanni in Bragora.
  • 01/12/2023 - Court Architects in Europe around 1700: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and His Contemporaries - Vienna
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper 'Fischer von Erlach's Dalmatian Connection: Drawing the Diocletian's Palace in Split' at the conference Court Architects in Europe around 1700: Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and his Contemporaries, organised by the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Museum of the City of Vienna, and the Institute for Art History of the University of Münster.
  • 16/11/2023 - Ricerche sul Rinascimento in Sicilia: fonti, contesti, opere - Messina
    Giuseppe Andolina presented his paper ‘Francesco Laurana nelle fonti letterarie (XVI-XIX secolo)’ at the study day ‘Ricerche sul Rinascimento in Sicilia: fonti, contesti, opere’, held at the University of Messina.
  • 11/11/2023 - The Adriatic as a Place of (Ex)change - Zagreb
    Petar Strunje presented the paper ‘Housing the Turk in the Serenissima: Translating and Negotiating Muslim Spaces in the Adriatic’ at the conference The Adriatic as a Place of (Ex)change, held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb and organised together with the L'Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l'Antiquité, Université de Franche-Comté.
  • 27/10/2023 - DARIAH-HR International Conference - Zagreb
    Neven Jovanović presented the paper 'A Database of Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic as Linked Open Data' at the 3rd DARIAH-HR International Conference, organised by the University Computing Centre - SRCE of the University of Zagreb.
  • 18/10/2023 - Importance of Protected Areas in the Context of Preservation of Natural and Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development of Local Communities - Šibenik
    Laris Borić presented the paper ‘Dalmatian Builders Present at the Construction of the Fortress of St. Nicholas’s in Šibenik’ (Dalmatinski majstori na izgradnji šibenske utvrde sv. Nikole) at the conference Važnost zaštićenih područja za očuvanje prirodnih i kulturnih vrijednosti i održivi razvoj lokalne zajednice, held at the public institution Nature of Šibenik - Knin County, Croatia.
  • 14/10/2023 - Stato da Mar: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space - Cambridge
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper ‘Fluctuating and Floating Architectural Culture of the Eastern Adriatic in the 15th Century’ at the conference Stato da Mar: The Venetian Mediterranean as a Cultural and Artistic Space, at Jesus College, University of Cambridge.
  • 29/09/2023 - Marche e il mare - Ascoli Piceno
    Jasenka Gudelj presented the paper ‘I regionalismi, l’Adriatico e le zone di contatto: l’architettura (e scultura) rinascimentale delle Marche’ at the conference Marche e il mare, organised by the University of Camerino at San Benedetto al Tronto and Ascoli Piceno.
  • 14/09/2023 - Periphery or Regional Centres? Three Centuries of Art between Central Europe and the Adriatic (1400-1700) - Ljubljana
    Jasenka Gudelj and Cristiano Guarneri presented their papers 'The Architectural Culture of the Contact Regions in the Early Modern Period: Between Friuli, Istra and Kvarner' and 'Circulation, Use, Impact: A Material-based Enquiry into the Consumption of Architectural Books in Baroque Slovenia' at the conference Periphery or Regional Centers? Three Centuries of Art between Central Europe and the Adriatic (1400-1700), held at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana.
  • 05/07/2023 - International Medieval Congress - Leeds
    The AdriArchCult Team organised four panels at the International Medieval Congress held in Leeds under the title 'Networks & Entanglements', with the participation of most project members.  
  • 21/04/2023 - Architekturtheoretisches Kolloquium - Einsiedeln
    Karla Papeš presented the paper ‘Transmission of Theoretical and Practical Fortification Knowledge in the Early Modern eastern Adriatic’ at the 11th Architekturtheoretisches Kolloquium, in Einsiedeln in Switzerland, organised by the Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin.
  • 14/04/2023 - Edifici amministrativi comunali nel Medioevo: aspetto, significato, scopo - Koper
    Petar Strunje presented the paper ‘I documenti di demolizione come fonti per la ricostruzione del palazzo comunale di Spalato’ at the conference on medieval public administrative buildings ‘Edifici amministrativi comunali nel Medioevo - aspetto, significato, scopo’ held in Koper/Capodistria (Slovenia).
  • 24/03/2023 - FORTMED - Pisa
    Karla Papeš presented the paper ‘Fortification Inventories in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic as Research Tools’ at the International Conference on Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast (FORTMED), at the University of Pisa .
  • 09/03/2023 - Colloquia Divina: dnevi Andrea Diva iz Justinopolisa - Koper
    Neven Jovanović presented the paper 'Experience of Space in the Defence of Korčula from the Ottoman Attack (1571) by Antonius Rosaneus' at the conference Colloquia Divina, held at the Faculty of the Humanities of the University of the Littoral in Koper, Slovenia.
  • 11/11/2022 - 5th Congress of Croatian Art Historians - Zagreb
    Ines Ivić presented the paper entitled ‘Provisions, Regulations, Decisions and Incentives: The Administrative and Legal Framework of Dubrovnik's Reconstruction of the Great Earthquake of 1667’ (‘Odredbe, propisi, odluke i poticaji: administrativno-pravni okvir obnove Dubrovnika nakon Velike trešnje 1667’) at the 5th Congress of Croatian Art Historians held in Zagreb (Galerija Klovićevi dvori), organised by the Institute for Art History.
  • 11/10/2022 - Convegno internazionale di studi. L’architettura e la scenografia per i teatri minori fra il 1750 e il 1850 - Venice
    PI Jasenka Gudelj presented her paper ‘Teatro di Hvar/Lesina, situato nell'Arsenale’ at the international conference ‘L’architettura e la scenografia per i teatri minori fra il 1750 e il 1850’ held at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
  • 30/09/2022 - People of the Adriatic: Mobility and Exchange in a Venetian Space (XIV-XVI century) - Venice
    PI Jasenka Gudelj presented her paper ‘La comunità degli Schiavoni (Dalmati) a Venezia (XV-XVI secolo)’ at the international conference ‘People of the Adriatic: Mobility and Exchange in a Venetian Space (XIV-XVI century)’, held at the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Deputazione di Storia patria per le Venezie.
  • 02/06/2022 - Colloque pour des jeunes chercheurs de la Renaissance/Renaissance-Kolloquium für junge Forscher - Paris
    Karla Papeš presented her paper ‘The Ideal French Fortress Budget and the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic Fortifications’ at the ‘Colloque pour des jeunes chercheurs de la Renaissance/Renaissance-Kolloquium für junge Forscher’ at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris.
  • 19-21/05/2022 - Art History and Discourse on Centre and Periphery - An Homage to Ljubo Karaman 1886-1971 - Zagreb
    The AdriArchCult team members presented their research in sessions at the international conference ‘Art History and Discourse on Centre and Periphery’ organised by the Croatian Society of Art Historians between 19 and 21 May in Zagreb, Croatia. Cristiano Guarneri and Ines Ivić presented their paper ‘Different Perspectives on the Centre-Periphery Paradigm: Karaman and Castelnuovo-Ginzburg in Comparison’, Giuseppe Andolina ‘Centre vs Periphery in the Stato da Mar: Public Architecture and Artistic Production in the 15th-Century Eastern Adriatic’, Karla Papeš ‘What is the Centre for the Circulation of Early Modern Fortification Knowledge?’, Laris Borić ‘The Applicability and the Transformative Nature of Karaman’s Notions of Peripheral/Provincial in the Dalmatian Cinquecento’, and Beatrice Tanzi ‘The Double “Territorialisation/Peripheralisation” of the Istrian and Dalmatian Dioceses’.
  • 13/05/2022 - 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) - Kalamazoo
    Giuseppe Andolina presented his paper ‘Textual Sources and Critical Fortune of the Sculptors of Aragonese Naples: The Case of Francesco Laurana’ at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) organised by the Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo (MI) and held online.
  • 30/03-02/04/2022 - 68th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America - Dublin
    The AdriArchCult team members presented their current research in sessions at the RSA 68th Annual Meeting in Dublin, Ireland.
    • The session ‘Architectural Culture of the Eastern Adriatic I: Constructing the Sacred Space’ consisted of papers by Beatrice Tanzi: ‘Patronage of the Missoli Family for the Benedictine Nuns on the Isle of Pag’, Karla Papeš: ‘The Sacred Fortress: The Fortification Chapels in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic’, Ana Marinković: ‘The Publicness of Private Chapels in the Patrician Residences of Dubrovnik’, and Ines Ivić: ‘From Decision to Execution: The Administrative Framework of Architectural Commissions in Early Modern Dubrovnik’.
    • The session ‘Architectural Culture of the Eastern Adriatic II: Transfers and Local Responses’ consisted of papers by Giuseppe Andolina: ‘Art and Architecture in the Public Space of Quattrocento Eastern Adriatic Cities: Šibenik and Trogir’, Laris Borić: ‘Transfer of Codussian Architectural Elements into Venetian Dalmatia: Lapicida Nikola Španić in Zadar’, Cristiano Guarneri: ‘On the Footprints of a Vitruvius Reader in the Seventeenth-Century Eastern Adriatic’, and Jasenka Gudelj: ‘The “Korčula Sketchbook” and the Architectural Culture of Early Modern Dalmatia’.
      Martina Frank was the chair of the session ‘Architectural Culture of the Eastern Adriatic II: Transfers and Local Responses’ and one of the chairs and organisers of the panel ‘Literary Academies and Interdisciplinary Exchange in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Italy’.
    • Tamsin Prideaux presented her research ‘Commerce and Merchant Networks in the Early Modern Mediterranean’ on the session ‘Strangers, Friends, and Enemies: Armenian Merchant Networks and Spaces in Seventeenth-Century Venice’.
  • 12/02/2022 - Women and Warfare in the Medieval World - online
    Karla Papeš presented her research ‘A Fifteenth-Century Strategic Agreement and a Manual of War Law Written by a Woman’ at the online workshop ‘Women and Warfare in the Medieval World’ organised by the University of Winchester - Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
  • 28-30/10/2021 - Conference XVII. Dani Cvita Fiskovića: Women about/in Art - Imotski
    Jasenka Gudelj and Karla Papeš presented their papers ‘Women in Architecture by Sena Sekulić Gvozdanović: Female History and Architectural Theory in the Context of the Croatian Historiographical Narrative’ and ‘Art historian Ana Deanović and Her Contribution to the History of Fortification Architecture’ at the ‘XVII. Dani Cvita Fiskovića: Women about/in Art’ conference in Imotski, Croatia. The conference was organised by the Department of Art History at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • 29/09-02/10/2021 - 6th Congress of Croatian Historians - Rijeka
    The AdriArchCult team members presented their research in two project-organised panels at the 6th Congress of Croatian Historians, with ‘culture’ as the main theme.
    • In the panel ‘Local and Universal Aspects of Architectural Culture on the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Early Modern Age I’, Jasenka Gudelj presented her paper ‘Architectural Culture of Contact Regions: How to Read the Architecture of the Eastern Adriatic Coast’, Laris Borić: ‘The Relationship between the Universal and the Local on the Example of the Renaissance Resemanticisation of an Ancient Monument’, and Karla Papeš: ‘Between Theory and Practice - Research Problems of Early Modern Fortification Architecture of the Eastern Adriatic Coast’.
    • In the second panel ‘Local and Universal Aspects of Architectural Culture on the Eastern Adriatic Coast in the Early Modern Age II’, papers were delivered by Ines Ivić: ‘Trial and Error Method? - Adoption of Architectural and Construction Innovations in Dubrovnik on the Example of the Construction of the Church of St Petilovrijenci (1676)’, and Ana Marinković: ‘”Tuttavia nell’operationi rimango solo”: Local Responses to the Orders of the Apostolic Visitors about the Church Spaces of the Eastern Adriatic Cities’.
      Elvis Orbanić presented the paper entitled ‘Ecclesiastical, Spiritual and Material Culture of Beram in the First Half of the 17th Century’ in the panel on church history.
  • 24-25/09/2021 - Dominikanci na hrvatskim prostorima 1221-2021 - Dubrovnik
    Jasenka Gudelj and Cristiano Guarneri presented their research ‘Books about the Architecture and Related Disciplines in the Dominican Libraries of Adriatic Croatia’ at the conference dedicated to the 800 years of existence of the Dominican order in Croatia ‘Dominikanci na hrvatskim prostorima 1221-2021’, which was held in the Dominican monastery in Dubrovnik.
  • 24/09/2021 - Third International Conference of PhD Students ‘Behind the Image / Beyond the Image’ - Venice
    Karla Papeš presented her research ‘Image as a Medium of Circulation of Knowledge in Renaissance Treatises on Fortifications’ at the Third International Conference of PhD Students ‘Behind the Image / Beyond the Image’ organised by the Ca' Foscari University of Venice and held online.
  • 15-16/09/2021 - Knowledge, Interpretation and Dissemination: Circulations in Mediterranean Architectural Culture between XVII and XVIII centuries - Rome
    Cristiano Guarneri and Ines Ivić presented their paper ‘Books, buildings, and Construction Techniques: Materiality of Architectural Knowledge in the Republic of Ragusa during the Early Modern Period’ at the Conference ‘Knowledge, Interpretation, and Dissemination: Circulations in Mediterranean Architectural Culture between the XVII and XVIII Centuries’, organised by the Department of History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome. The conference was held online.
  • 28/06/2021 - Seminario di storia dell’arte veneta: Commercio e scambi a Venezia attraverso la produzione artistica - Venice
    Jasenka Gudelj presented her paper ‘Gli scambi artistici tra Venezia e la costa orientale dell’Adriatico: mercato d’architettura, pittura e scultura’ for the participants of the International Seminar on Art History held at the Istituto Veneto and organised by the École du Louvre.
  • 29/04/2021 - Le Marche e l'Adriatico nel Quattrocento: Arte e architettura tra eredità gotica e Rinascimento dell’antico - online
    Jasenka Gudelj presented her paper entitled ‘Giorgio Orsini/Juraj Dalmatinac e il mercato scultoreo-architettonico adriatico nel Quattrocento’ at the conference ‘Le Marche e l'Adriatico nel Quattrocento: Arte e architettura tra eredità gotica e Rinascimento dell’antico’. The conference was held online.
  • 22/04/2021 - 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America - online
    The team members presented their current research in two sessions at RSA Virtual 2021 sponsored by the AdriArchCult project.
    • The session ‘Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic I’ consisted of papers by Martina Frank - ‘Local Identities and the Celebration of the Venetian Republic in the Stato da Mar’, Laris Borić - ‘Translations, Adaptations, Citations, and Paraphrases in 16th-Century Classical Architecture throughout the Eastern Adriatic’, and Ana Marinković - ‘Ecclesiastical Visitatores as Agents in the Transmission of Spatial Reforms in the Eastern Adriatic’.
    • In the second session ‘Architectural Culture of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic II’, papers were given by Ines Ivić - ‘Libro della fabbrica as the Source for the Construction History in the Eastern Adriatic Coast’, Cristiano Guarneri - ‘Architectural Books in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic’, and Jasenka Gudelj - ‘Between Greece and Italy? The Fluctuating and Floating Architectural Market of the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic’.

Workshops and seminars

  • 22/01/2021 - Seminar: Martina Frank, Elena Svalduz, Fulvio Lenzo, Gianmario Guidarelli, Temi e problemi della storia dell’architettura veneziana dell’epoca moderna negli ultimi vent’anni
  • 15/01/2021 - Historiography seminar: History of Eastern Adriatic Architecture
  • 08/01/2021 - Historiography seminar: History of Venetian Architecture. Themes and Problems
file pdf 29/01/2021 - Seminar: Jasenka Gudelj, Marta Nezzo, Sarah Lynch, Nazionalismi storiografici in storia dell’arte ed architettura [ITA] 1 MB
  • 26/02/2021 - Historiography seminar: History of Eastern Adriatic Architecture
  • 26/11/2020 - Historiography seminar: Italian and Croatian Scholarship of the 20th Century
  • 19/11/2020 - Historiography seminar: Traditions and Historiographical Problems
  • 16/10/2020 - Historiography seminar: Problems of Centre and Periphery