ZAGREB, Oct 8 (Hina) - The exhibition "The Croats - Christianity, Culture, Art" will open at the hall of Pope Sixto V in the Vatican on October 28. The event is this year's most ambitious project of the Culture Ministry in promoting
Croatian art, Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic told reporters on Friday. The exhibition was organised by the Culture Ministry with the support of the Croatian Bishops' Conference. The idea of staging the exhibition, which bears witness of Croatia's religious and cultural heritage, on the threshold of the third millennium, was given by a former chancellor of the Croatian St Geronimo Institute in Rome, Anton Benvin. The exhibition has several topics: "A Short History of Croats: Christianity and Croatian Statehood (7th-11th century); "The Age of Cathedrals and Monasteries" (12th-15th century); "The Age of Trial: Christianity and Turkish Conquest" (16th century)
ZAGREB, Oct 8 (Hina) - The exhibition "The Croats - Christianity,
Culture, Art" will open at the hall of Pope Sixto V in the Vatican on
October 28.
The event is this year's most ambitious project of the Culture
Ministry in promoting Croatian art, Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic
told reporters on Friday.
The exhibition was organised by the Culture Ministry with the
support of the Croatian Bishops' Conference.
The idea of staging the exhibition, which bears witness of
Croatia's religious and cultural heritage, on the threshold of the
third millennium, was given by a former chancellor of the Croatian
St Geronimo Institute in Rome, Anton Benvin.
The exhibition has several topics: "A Short History of Croats:
Christianity and Croatian Statehood (7th-11th century); "The Age
of Cathedrals and Monasteries" (12th-15th century); "The Age of
Trial: Christianity and Turkish Conquest" (16th century);
"Religious Enthusiasm and Croatia's Reconstruction" (17th-18th
century); "Toward Our Age" (19th-20th century); and "Popular
Religiousness".
The setting up of the exhibition is in its final stage. The event
will be accompanied by a two-volume catalogue in Italian and
Croatian.
Contributing to setting up the exhibition, some 20 art and literary
historians, historians, musicologists, restorers and
conservationists will enable Croatia in the best way possible to
present to the world its role in the history, culture and art of
western Christianity on the threshold of the third millennium, said
Vladimir Markovic, a coordinator of the project.
Biskupic informed reporters the Ministry was negotiating about
staging the exhibition in Hungary and Poland as well. He added the
Ministry had also received a request from Mantova for the Vatican
exhibition of Croatian fine arts to be staged in Mantova.
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