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Travel Narratives and the Fashioning of a Dalmatian Artistic Heritage, ca. 1675–1941
The Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre, Split, 12–14 December 2024

Conceived and organised as part of the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) project TraveloguesDalmatia of the Institute of Art History, led by Dr Ana Šverko.

This conference brings together historians and theorists of art, architecture, urbanism, literature, anthropology, and ethnology, and other experts engaged in travel narratives. It aims to explore travel as an autonomous multidisciplinary and multimedia practice, as well as to investigate how perceptions of Dalmatia in the European imagination have been shaped through various travel narratives. These narratives span diverse genres, recording media, authorial backgrounds, and travel motivations.

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9.30  Introductions
• Vesna Bulić Baketić (Split City Museum)
• Ivana Vladović (Tourist Board of Split-Dalmatia County)
• Ana Šverko (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)
Conference Opening
• Renata Schellenberg: Living the Journey Twice: Travel Writing as Genre

10.30  Session 1 | Changing Perceptions of Dalmatia in Travel Narratives, 17th to the 20th Century
Moderators: Joško Belamarić and Sanja Žaja Vrbica
• Jesse Howell — Disorientation, Friction, and Anxiety in Dalmatian Travel Narratives
• Ulrike Tischler-Hofer — ‘Dalmatia Is His Majesty’s Passive Province… and Will Remain So for at Least Another 20 Years’ (1803): Mutual Perception and Rejection in Times of Transition, 1797–1815
• Mateo Bratanić — Early 20th-Century British Travel Writers in Dalmatia: The Change of Perspective

11.30  Coffee Break

12.00  Session 2 | The Evolution of Travelogues in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Part 1
Moderators: Ana Šverko and Irena Kraševac
• John Pinto — Advent’rous in the Sacred Search of Ancient Arts
• Frances Sands — Travels of the Mind: Travel Literature at Sir John Soane’s Museum
• Nataša Urošević — Dalmatian Journeys: Discovering Dalmatia on the Route of the Lloyd’s Steamers

13.30  Lunch Break

17.30  Presentation of the TraveloguesDalmatia Project

18.30  Journal Promotion — Život umjetnosti (Life of Art), Volume 113, No. 2 (2023)

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9.00  Walking Tour: Diocletian’s Palace

10.45  Introduction

11.00  Session 3 | The Evolution of Travelogues in the 18th and 19th Centuries, Part 2
Moderators: Mateo Bratanić and Mirko Sardelić
• Renata Schellenberg — Travel Reading and Travel Writing: Johann Georg Kohl’s Journey through Dalmatia (1851)
• Irena Kraševac — Arthur Rössler and Bruno Reiffenstein Discover Dalmatia on Their 1905 Journey
• Maciej Czerwiński — Competing Travel Narratives on Dalmatia: Giuseppe Modrich and Izidor Kršnjavi

12.20  Coffee Break

12.40  Session 4 | Travel Drawings: Shaping the Genre’s Definition, Part 1
Moderators: Frances Sands and Marko Špikić
• Ana Šverko — Before Spalatro: Clérisseau and Adam’s 1757 Journey from Rome to Split
• Svein Mønnesland — European Landscape Painters Discover a ‘Norwegian Fjord’, the Gulf of Kotor, 1810–1875
• Joško Belamarić — Sir John Gardner Wilkinson’s Gaze on Diocletian’s Palace

13.40  Coffee Break

14.00  Session 5 | Travel Drawings: Shaping the Genre’s Definition, Part 2
Moderators: Joško Belamarić and Ana Šverko
• Sanja Žaja Vrbica — Viennese Women Painters in the South of the Monarchy
• Elke Katharina Wittich — ‘Blue Sea and Black Mountains’: Visual Topoi in Travelogues and Guidebooks from the Mid-19th Century to the End of the First World War
• Nataša Ivanović — Genius Loci of Dalmatia in Zoran Mušič’s Oeuvre

15.30  Lunch Break

16.30  Visit to the Gallery of Fine Arts

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9.45  Introduction

10.00  Session 6 | Discovering Dalmatia: Identity through the Travel Narrative Lens, Part 1
Moderators: Mateo Bratanić and Elke Katharina Wittich
• Marko Špikić — Jacob Spon’s Language of Discovery of the Eastern Adriatic’s Cultural Heritage
• Frane Prpa — Maximilian de Traux and His Description of the Interior Regions of Dalmatia
• Antonia Tomić — Drniš: The Meeting Place of East and West

11.00  Coffee Break

11.20  Session 7 | Discovering Dalmatia: Identity through the Travel Narrative Lens, Part 2
Moderators: Marko Špikić and Ana Šverko
• Franciska Ćurković-Major and Boris Dundović — Professional Trip of the Society of Hungarian Engineers and Architects to Dalmatia in 1895: A Travel Account by Gyula Sándy
• Brigitta Mader — Through the Eyes of a Prehistorian: Josef Szombathy’s Photo Journeys through Dalmatia, 1898–1912
• Mirko Sardelić — Alice Lee Moqué’s Delightful Dalmatia

12.20  Discussion and Closing Remarks

13.00  Closing Reception

15.00  Visit to the Meštrović Gallery

Scientific Committee
Basile Baudez (Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology)
Joško Belamarić (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)
Mateo Bratanić (University of Zadar, Department of History)
Iain Gordon Brown (Honorary Fellow, National Library of Scotland)
Hrvoje Gržina (Croatian State Archives)
Katrina O’Loughlin (Brunel University London)
Cvijeta Pavlović (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature)
Frances Sands (Sir John Soane’s Museum)
Marko Špikić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Art History)
Ana Šverko (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)
Elke Katharina Wittich (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Organising Committee
Joško Belamarić (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)
Tomislav Bosnić (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)
Mateo Bratanić (University of Zadar, Department of History)
Ana Ćurić (Institute of Art History)
Matko Matija Marušić (Institute of Art History)
Katrina O’Loughlin (Brunel University London)
Cvijeta Pavlović (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences)
Ana Šverko (Institute of Art History – Cvito Fisković Centre Split)