SPECIFIC ENTITIES

In addition to urban units, there are also certain specific works of art, as well as groups of chronologically or typologically connected works of architecture that make their way into the European anthology. Although seldom found in handbooks around the world, about a hundred churches from the period of the Croatian Kingdom (from the 9th to the beginning of the 12th century), through their distinctiveness and number, form a group of great importance and value. Of very diverse shapes, they are adorned with stone interlaced motif reliefs, some of which are the largest in size in Europe of the period (for example, plates from the church of St. Nediljica in Zadar from the beginning of the 11th century). Worth mentioning are also the exceptionally well-preserved Romanesque carved wooden door cases by Master Andrija Buvina from 1214 in the Split Cathedral, consisting of 28 reliefs depicting the life of Christ, as well as the largest work of Gothic goldsmithery: a gold-plated silver shrine i.e. sarcophagus of St. Simon from 1380 in Zadar, with its numerous reliefs depicting contemporary life.

Interlaced relief with pentagram and birds, 11th C., Baptistry, Split Relief from altar screen, St. Dominic, 11th C., Archeological Museum, Zadar Church of the Holy Cross, 11th C., Nin Church of the Holy Salvation, 9th C., Cetina A. Buvina: Relief from wooden door frame, 13th C.., Split