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Art and Culture

Long peaceful periods in the history of Dubrovnik and the relative bounty in which the city lived made it possible for science, art and culture to flourish. Renaissance was especially fruitful in literature. Among the most famous renaissance poets are Karlo Pucić, Ilija Crijević, Džore Držić and Šiško Menčetić.

The famous renaissance comediographe was Marin Držić which has almost no contemporary match in Europe for its scope, imaginativeness and poetic quality. The same could be said of the famous baroque poet Ivan Gundulić, the author of the most beautiful verse on freedom ever written. Many scientists and scholars lived in Dubrovnik (among them the greatest were Marin Getaldić and Ruđer Bošković) and the works of this scientists presents some ideas that are current even today.

Dubrovnik had outstanding painters in the 15 th and 16 th centuries. Numerous painters workshops flourished in those times.Unfortunately first the earthquake and then the fires have destroyed most of the production. The most important painters in the history of Dubrovnik were Lovro Dobričević, Vicko Dobričević, Mihajlo Hamzić and Nikola Božidarević.Nikola Božidarević was a founder of the Renaissance painting school in Dubrovnik. Today in the Dominican Monastery are exhibited the paintings of this famous painters.

The cultural heritage of this century-old free Republic is kept in its museums, treasuries and galleries and we suggest you to visit as follows:

• The Rector's Palace houses the Museum of Culture and History, which shows the history of Dubrovnik and exhibits period furniture, valuable paintings, documents, seals, weapons, medals, coins, coats of arms and so on.
• The Maritime Museum shows the stormy and glorious past of Dubrovnik seafaring from the earliest days until the present.
• Museum of the Franciscan Monastery with the old pharmacy from 1317, which has worked without interruption until the present and is one of the oldest in Europe. The museum collection also includes much artistic goldwork, paintings by old masters and rare books.
• Museum of the Dominican Monastery. The most beautiful in the museum are paintings of famous painters, the representatives of Dubrovnik schools of paintings from the 15 th and . 16 th centuries.
• Cathedral Treasury – it keeps the most valuable gold work from the 13 th to the 18 th centuries. The most impressive and valuable of the reliquaries in gold and other works of art are the head and arm of St.Blasius from the 11 th and 12 th centuries, silver reliquaries, crosses, churh vessels and paintings by Italian and Croatian artists.