Katarina Horvat-Levaj PhD
Senior Research Adviser in tenure, Director
P. +385 1 6112 744
E. khorvat / ipu.hr; ravnatelj / ipu.hr
Biography
Katarina Horvat-Levaj graduated Art History and Archeology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (1981), where she obtained her master’s degree with the thesis Settlements and Towns. History and Theory of Urban Planning (1985), and defended her doctoral thesis under the title Representative Residential Baroque Architecture in Dubrovnik (1995). In 1988 she was awarded a scholarship at the University of Padua.
Since 1982 she has been employed at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, presently as a senior research associate. Since 2002 she has been the head of the scientific research project Croatian Architectural Heritage from 16th to 19th Century, and since 2007 of the scientific project Croatian Architecture and Urban Planning from 16th to 18th Century – Origins and Contexts.
Within the Scientific Research Programme of the Institute she worked on a number of themes related to architecture and urban planning of different art historical periods, especially the Baroque, most notably Istrian castles, historic center of Šibenik, baroque palaces in Dubrovnik and Boka Kotorska, fortified villa architecture in Dalmatia, baroque sacral architecture in continental Croatia. Her most comprehensive project was the study of Dubrovnik, particularly residential and sacral architecture – including certain urban quarters and complexes – and architects and constructors.
Besides scientific research, she has also participated in the preparation of conservation studies for revitialisation of settlements, as well as reconstruction and restoration of single architectural monuments, particularly ones in Dubrovnik damaged by the 1979 earthquake and the 1991-1992 Homeland War, and churches and castles of the continental Croatia.
She collaborated with various exhibition projects (Klovićevi Dvori Gallery, Dubrovnik Museums). She was the head of the research of the scientific research project Art Topography of Croatia and the editor of several books within the project (Križevci – City and Region, Ludbreg – Ludbreška Podravina). She is editor of the books from the series Studies and Monographs of the IAH (Academic Church of St. Catherine in Zagreb, The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin in Dubrovnik, The Collegiate Church of St Blaise in Dubrovnik) and editorial bord memeber of the journal Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History) (Journal of IAH) (2005 – 2015).
She participated at a number of Croatian and foreign conferences. As part of the international project Museum with no Frontiers. Discover Baroque Art she presented Croatian Baroque Architecture.
She teaches at graduate and doctoral studies at the Department of Art History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split (where she has been elected as associate professor); doctoral studies at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb; and occasionally at the Department of Art History, University of Graz.
She is a PhD mentor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, and collaborates with the the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography (at the author of the entries in Croatian Lexicon, Croatian General Encyclopedia, Art Encyclopedia, Croatian Biographical Lexicon).
She is a member of the Croatian Society of Art Historians and Matica Hrvatska in Zagreb.
She was awarded Croatian Annual National Award for Science for the book Baroque Palaces in Dubrovnik (2001), and the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts’ Annual Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Republic of Croatia for the book Academic Church of St Catherine in Zagreb (2011.), for which she also received Croatian Society of Art Historians’ Annual Award Radovan Ivančević.
She is a member of the National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development of the Republic of Croatia (2014 – 2016).
Bibliography (selected)
Books
Palača Slavonske generalkomande u Osijeku / The Palace of the Slavonian Generalkomande in Osijek (with Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki), Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb – Osijek, 2019
Barokna arhitektura, edition Art History in Croatia, Ljevak, Zagreb, 2015
Hrvatska stambena arhitektura 17. i 18. stoljeća u europskom kontekstu, Textbooks and scripts, Online editions of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Split, 2012
The Academic Church of St Catherine in Zagreb (with Doris Baričević and Mirjana Repanić-Braun), IAH, Zagreb, 2011
Barokne palače u Dubrovniku, IAH, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Historical Sciences, Dubrovnik, 2001
Editorial books
Eugen Savojski (1663. – 1736.) i gradovi tvrđave jugoistočne granice Habsburške Monarhije, Zbornik radova radionice projekta Hrvatske zaklade za znanost »EUGEN«, Zagreb, 2023
Požeška katedrala / Požega Cathedral, Požega – Zagreb, 2022
Sveti Jeronim kroz vjekove. Kult i spomenici / Saint Jerome Through the Ages. Cult and Monuments (with Emilio Marino), Zagreb, 2021
The Collegiate Church of St Blaise in Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik – Zagreb, 2019
Obnova crkve sv. Vlaha u Dubrovniku (with Ivanka Jemo and Emilio Marin), Zagreb, 2018
The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin in Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik – Zagreb, 2016
Ludbreg - Ludbreška Podravina, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, Zagreb, 1997
Original Scientific Papers published in international peer-reviewed journals (A1)
Palača Prister arhitekata Hönigsberga i Deutscha i bečka izvorišta neobaroka u zagrebačkoj arhitekturi historicizma, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, 44/2, 2020, 67-86
A Symbol of Habsburg Military Power: the Slavonian General Command Palace in Osijek (1723), in: RIHA Journal, 0245, 2020, 1-35
Samostan benediktinki sv. Andrije na Rabu. Prilog povijesti gradnje, in: Prostor, znanstveni časopis za arhitekturu i urbanizam, Vol. 27, No. 2 (58), 2019, 192-207
The Sicilian Architect Tommaso Maria Napoli and the Baroque Cathedral of Dubrovnik, in: RIHA Journal, Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, 0116, 2015
Palača Luccari na Pustijerni: obnova dubrovačke stambene arhitekture nakon potresa 1667. godine u svjetlu novih arhivskih istraživanja (with Relja Seferović), in: Peristil, 56, 2013, 127-142
A Viennese Project in Valpovo (Croatia) – Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Valpovo and Baroque Churches with Two-Bay Naves (with Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki), in: RIHA Journal, Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, 0076, 2013
Nekadašnja isusovačka crkva sv. Mihovila u Osijeku u srednjoeuropskom kontekstu (with Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki), in: Peristil, 54, 2011, 207-217
Župna crkva Bezgrešnog začeća Blažene Djevice Marije u Valpovu – podrijetlo arhitektonskog tipa i kontekst (with Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki), in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 35, 2011, 157-176
Herman Bollé i Crkva sv. Katarine u Zagrebu – korekcija jedne tradicionalne atribucije, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 32, 2008, 237-250
Ranobarokno pročelje crkve sv. Katarine u Zagrebu – nedovršeni projekt s dva zvonika, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 31, 2007, 91-110
Ilija Katičić u baroknoj obnovi Dubrovnika i Perasta – nove spoznaje o životu i djelu dubrovačkog graditelja i klesara, in: Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti u Dubrovniku (Annals of the Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik), XLIV, 2006, 189-218
Baroque Restoration of the Rector's Palace in Dubrovnik (s Reljom Seferović), in: Dubrovnik Annals, 10, 2006, 87-122
Barokne kuće s terasama u Cavtatu – prilog istraživanju umjetničkih veza Dubrovnika i Boke kotorske, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 29, 2005, 211-236
Katedrala sv. Terezije u Požegi, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 28, 2004, 208-231
Barokna obnova Kneževa dvora u Dubrovniku (s Reljom Seferović), in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 27, 2003, 163-183
Perasti u Visu – kula, kuća i palača, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 26, 2002, 30-48
Francesco Cortese – projektant barokne palače Zamanja u Dubrovniku, in: Peristil, 45, 2002, 107-122
Dva utvrđena ladanjska kompleksa plemićke obitelji Jakša na Visu, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 25, 2001, 135-150
Od baroknog klasicizma do neoklasicizma, Stilsko-tipološke transformacije stambene arhitekture Dubrovnika između 1780. i 1900. godine, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 24, 2000, 61-72
Benediktinski samostan sv. Jakova u Dubrovniku, in: Peristil, 42/43, 1999‒2000, 81-96
Knežev dvor u Pridvorju – građevni razvoj i problemi obnove, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 20, 1996, 105-121
Dubrovačke barokne palače izgorjele u napadu na grad 6. prosinca 1991. godine, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 19, 1995, 69-91
Župna crkva Presvetog Trojstva u Donjoj Stubici, in: Peristil, 38, 1995, 73-82
Građevni razvoj srednjovjekovnog bloka u povijesnoj jezgri Dubrovnika, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 16, 1992, 41-53
Crkva sv. Križa u Križevcima, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 12–13, 1988.–1989, 139-226
Analiza povijesne jezgre sjeveroistočnog dijela Šibenika (with Biserka Tadić and Jagoda Marković), in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 11, 1987, 5-29
Hum – razvoj grada, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti (Journal of the Institute of Art History), 10, 1986, 41-68
Scientific Papers published in conference proceedings
Javna vojna arhitektura u gradovima tvrđavama: prilog tipologiji na primjeru triju oružarnica, in: Eugen Savojski (1663.–1736.) i gradovi tvrđave jugoistočne granice Habsburške Monarhije, Zbornik radova radionice projekta Hrvatske zaklade za znanost »EUGEN«., (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Zagreb, 2023, 41–61
Motifs of Atlas and Hercules on Baroque portals in the Habsburg Monarchy (with Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki), in: La città palinsesto. Tracce, sguardi e narrazioni sulla complessità dei contesti urbani storici Tomo I. Memorie, storie, immagini, (ed.) Francesca Capano, Massimo Visone, Napoli: Federico II University Press, 2020., 1485-1493
Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736) and the Fortress Cities on the Border between the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire (with Margareta Turkalj Podmanicki), in: La città palinsesto. Tracce, sguardi e narrazioni sulla complessità dei contesti urbani storici Tomo I. Memorie, storie, immagini, (ed.) Francesca Capano, Massimo Visone, Napoli: Federico II University Press, 2020., 701-710
Implementacija novih funkcija u antičku i srednjovjekovnu mrežu stonskog agera i solane (with: Vedran Ivanković and Paula Šimetin), in: HERU, Heritage urbanism, Zbornik međunarodnog znanstvenog skupa Cultural Heritage – possibilities for spatial and economic develpment, Zagreb, 2015, 484-489
Tragom Prelogova „čitanja iz dokumenata“ i „čitanja iz kamena“ – primjeri iz Dubrovnika: palača Luke Junija Sorkočevića i bratovštinska crkva Rozario – dva prijedloga za Tommasa Napolija, in: Prelogova baština danas, Proceedings of the symposium held 28th and 29th November 2009 in Dubrovnik on the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary of Milan Prelog, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, IAH, Zagreb, 2014, 280-311
Tommaso Napoli u Dubrovniku, in: Umjetnički dodiri dviju jadranskih obala u 17. i 18. stoljeću, Proceedings of the scientific conference held 21st and 22nd November 2003 in Split on the occasion of 5th anniversary of Kruno Prijatelj's death, (ed.) Vladimir Marković and Ivana Prijatelj-Pavičić, Split, 2007, 31-52
Između ljetnikovaca i palača – reprezentativna stambena arhitektura dubrovačkog predgrađa Pile u 18. stoljeću, in: Kultura ladanja, (ed.) Nada Grujić, Proceedings of the scientific conferences Dani Cvita Fiskovića (Days of Cvito Fisković) held in 2001 and 2002, IAH, Zagreb, 2006, 195-212
Tinjan – građevni razvoj, in: Tinjanski zbornik, Proceedings of the expert- scientific conference „Tinjan i okolica od prapovijesti do danas“, (ed.) Josip Šiklić, Pazin, 2005, 261-278
Strani projektanti i domaća tradicija u dubrovačkoj baroknoj arhitekturi, in: Zbornik 1. kongresa hrvatskih povjesničara umjetnosti (Proceedings of the 1st Congress of Croatian art historians), (ed.) Milan Pelc, Zagreb, 2004, 75-84
Draguć kao primjer karakterističnih razvojnih oblika naselja nastalih uz kaštele, in: Cerovljanski zbornik, proceedings of scientific conference „Cerovlje i okolica od prapovijesti do danas“, (ed.) Josip Šiklić, Pazin, 1999, 179-195
Crtež u povijesti umjetnosti (with Ivan Tenšek), in: Crtež u znanosti – zbornik znanstvenog skupa (Drawing in Science ‒ Scientific Conference Proceedings), (ed.) Miljenko Lapaine, Zagreb, 1998, 125-150
Gradovi-utvrde sjeveroistočne Istre – građevni razvoj i problemi revitalizacije, in: Buzetski zbornik, 12, 1988, 213-226
Book chapter
Arhitektura kasnobarokne crkve, in: Požeška katedrala, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Požega – Zagreb, 2022, 21-97
Kompleks Hrvatskoga katoličkog sveučilišta / nekadašnja Domobranska vojarna – urbanističko i arhitektonsko značenje, in: Marinov zbornik. Papers in Honour of Professor Emilio Marin, (eds.) Mario Kevo, Ivan Majnarić, Suzana Obrovac Liparić, Zagreb, 2022, 725-739
Crkva svetog Jeronima u Štrigovi. Prilog istraživanju crkava s trolisnim svetištem i kupolom, in: Sveti Jeronim kroz vjekove. Kult i spomenici, (ed.) Emilio Marin, Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Zagreb, 2021, 325-354
The Baroque Church of St Blaise – a Design by Marino Groppelli, in: The Collegiate Church of St Blaise in Dubrovnik, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Dubrovnik – Zagreb, 2019, 97-175
Architecture of the Baroque Cathedral, in: The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Vigrin in Dubrovnik, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Dubrovnik – Zagreb, 2016, 121-211
Barokna obnova Kneževa dvora, in: Knežev dvor u Dubrovniku – utvrda, palača, muzej, (ed.) Pavica Vilać, Dubrovnik, 2016, 131-158
Arhitektura barokne katedrale, in: Katedrala Gospe Velike u Dubrovniku, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, , Dubrovnik ‒ Zagreb, 2014, 121-211
Crkve svetoga Vlaha u Dubrovniku, in: Sv. Vlaho u povijesti i sadašnjosti, (ed.) Pavica Vilać, exhibition catalogue, Dubrovački muzeji, Dubrovnik, 2014, 246-273
Arhitektura Gradićeve katedrale, in: Stjepan Gradić, otac domovine, (ed.) Pavica Vilać, exhibition catalogue, Dubrovački muzeji, Dubrovnik, 2013, 354-379
Urbanistička preobrazba Dubrovnika nakon potresa 1667. godine, in: Stjepan Gradić, otac domovine, (ed.) Pavica Vilać, exhibition catalogue, Dubrovački muzeji, Dubrovnik, 2013, 343-353
Arhitektura crkve Majke Božje Jeruzalemske na Trškom Vrhu, in: Hodočasnička crkva Majke Božje Jeruzalemske na Trškom Vrhu, (ed.) Andrija Lukinović, sacral cultural ‒ historical guide, Glas koncila, Zagreb, 2011, 41-75.
Istraživanje barokne arhitekture, in: Baština u fokusu ‒ 50 godina Instituta za povijest umjetnosti 1961.–2011 / Heritage in Focus ‒ 50 Years of the Institute of Art History, (ed.) Milan Pelc, IAH, Zagreb, 2011, 89-118
Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, in: Baština u fokusu ‒ 50 godina Instituta za povijest umjetnosti 1961.–2011 / Heritage in Focus ‒ 50 Years of the Institute of Art History, (ed.) Milan Pelc, IAH, Zagreb, 2011, 179-188
Barokna arhitektura u Hrvatskoj, in: Hrvatska umjetnost – povijest i spomenici, (ed.) Milan Pelc, Zagreb, 2010, 249-287
Barokna sakralna arhitektura – tragom Eugenove crkve, in: Slavonija, Baranja i Srijem – vrela europske civilizacije, (ed.) Vesna Kusin and Branka Šulc, Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, 2009, 335-347
Nadbiskupska palača – zaboravljeni spomenik dubrovačke barokne arhitekture, in: Sic ars deprenditur arte, Zbornik u čast Vladimira Markovića, (eds.) Sanja Cvetnić, Milan Pelc, Daniel Premerl, Zagreb, 2009, 265-288
Barokna arhitektura Požege i Požeštine, in: Kulturna baština Požege i Požeštine, (ed.) Natalija Čerti, Požega, 2004, 183-207
Barokna franjevačka arhitektura provincija Sv. Ladislava i Sv. Ivana Kapistranskog, in: Mir i dobro: umjetničko i kulturno nasljeđe Hrvatske franjevačke provincije sv. Ćirila i Metoda, exhibition catalogue, (ed.) Marija Mirković and Emanuel Hoško, Zagreb, 2000, 207-218
Utvrde i dvorci, in: Ludbreg – Ludbreška Podravina, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Ivanka Reberski, IAH ‒ Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1997, 91-101
Sakralna arhitektura, in: Ludbreg – Ludbreška Podravina, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj, Ivanka Reberski, IAH ‒ Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1997, 121-138
Crkva sv. Križa, in: Križevci – grad i okolica, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Žarko Domljan, IAH ‒ Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1993, 135-157
Tri kapele u Križevcima – Sv. Ladislav, Sv. Rok, Sv. Florijan, in: Križevci – grad i okolica, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Žarko Domljan, IAH ‒ Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1993, 187-195
Sakralna arhitektura okolice Križevaca, in: Križevci – grad i okolica, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Žarko Domljan, IAH ‒ Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1993, 247-257
Other works
Baroque Architecture in Croatia, online project Museum with no Frontiers. Discover Baroque Art, 2010 (texts: Academy Church of St. Catherine, Zagreb; Ratkaj Palace, Miljana; St. Vitus Cathedral, Rijeka; Jesuit Church of St Ignatius, college and Jesuit stairs, Dubrovnik; Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary, Dubrovnik; Church of St. Blaise, Dubrovnik; Parich Church of St. Michael, Osijek; Franciscan Church and Monastery of St. Roch, Virovitica; Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Sela kod Siska; Vojković Palace, Zagreb; Oršić Palace, Gornja Bistra, Villa Pucić, Dubrovnik)
Katalog sakralne arhitekture: in: Krapinsko-zagorska županija – sakralna arhitektura s inventarom, feudalna arhitektura, spomen obilježja, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Ivanka Reberski, IAH ‒Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2008, 154-156, 198-200, 209, 212, 346
Graditeljska baština Gorskog kotara, online project Hierp Hrvarska http://www.hicro.net, 2006
Katalog franjevačkih samostana: in: Mir i dobro: umjetničko i kulturno nasljeđe Hrvatske franjevačke provincije sv. Ćirila i Metoda, exhibition catalogue, (ed.) Marija Mirković and Emanuel Hoško, GKD, Zagreb, 2000, 360-362
Architecture baroque, in: Croatie, Guides Gallimard, Pariz, 1999, 60-61
Katalog sakralnih i reprezentativnih profanih građevina: in: Ludbreg – Ludbreška Podravina, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Katarina Horvat-Levaj i Ivanka Reberski, IAH ‒ Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1997, 217-333
Katalog sakralnih građevina: in: Križevci – grad i okolica, Umjetnička topografija Hrvatske, (ed.) Žarko Domljan, Zagreb, IAH ‒ Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 1993, 223-385