Biography
Born in Zagreb in 1990, where, after graduating from Classical High School, he entered the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences (art history and philosophy). In 2015, he enrolled in the postgraduate doctoral study in medieval studies at the same faculty, where he defended his dissertation in October 2019. He participated in student exchanges at the universities of Naples (academic year 2013–2014) and Pisa (winter semester 2015–2016), and at the University of Cambridge (Lent term 2018). He is the winner of the Rector's Award (2013) and the Award for Graduate Thesis of the Society of Croatian Art Historians (2015).
He participated in two projects of the Croatian Science Foundation: Dubrovnik: Civitas et Acta Consiliorum. Visualizing Development of Medieval Urban Fabric (IPU, doctoral candidate, 2015 – 2017) and Ars lignea adriatica: The woodcarving of the northern Adriatic from 1300 to 1600 (FFRI, postdoc, 2020 – 2021).
Since 2023, he has been the head of the institutional project UrbArh – Art and Architecture of the Urban Settings in Croatia (financed by NextGenerationEU). Since 2024, he has been a member of the COST action PRAYTICIPATE – Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World (CA23214).
In addition to the monograph on wooden sculpture of the Cres and Lošinj archipelago, he published articles in respected journals (Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, Conservar Património, Convivium, Ars Adriatica, Dubrovnik Annals, Peristil, Studia Ceranea and others) and chapters in the books by publishers from Croatia, Germany, Italy and Spain.
He participated in more than thirty conferences in the country and abroad. He is an external associate of the Faculty of Philosophy Josip Juraj Strossmayer in Osijek where he teaches the general course “Art of the Middle Ages”. Since 2020, he has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti.
Bibliography (selection)
Books
Drvena skulptura Cresa i Lošinja do 1550. godine: pojavnost i vrijednost [Wooden Sculpture of the Cres and Lošinj Archipelago up to 1550: Image and Reception], Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2024
Articles
“The (after)lives of the pseudo-sumptuous surfaces: the case of the Venetian Gothic and Renaissance wooden sculpture in the Adriatic”, in: Conservar Património, 2025 (online first)
“Majstor Ivan Antunov iz Vienne i dubrovačka kuća kasnog 14. stoljeća”, in: Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti u Dubrovniku, 61, 2023), 45–59.
“Crkva i samostan Sv. Marije od Anđela u Osoru: tradicija, izvori i arhitektura”, in: Ars Adriatica, 13, 2023, 99–112.
“Paolo Veneziano's arbor crucis and the Rhetoric of the Frame in Mid-Trecento”, in: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 85/IV, 2022, 440–464.
“O unutrašnjosti katedrale Sv. Nikole u Osoru tijekom 16. stoljeća”, in: Ars Adriatica, 11, 2021, 177–192.
“Painted Crosses and the Trajectories of Medieval Image Captions. Evidence from Thirteenth-Century Zadar and Beyond”, in: Convivium, 7/II, 2020, 93–109.
“Hereditary Ecclesiae and Domestic Ecclesiolae in Medieval Ragusa (Dubrovnik)”, in: Religions, 11/I, 2020, 1–14.
“Thurifer angels of the Crucifixion groups in Ragusan friaries: wonders, images and cults”, in: Dubrovnik Annals, 22, 2018, 51–73.
“Urbani krajolik i vlasnička topografija kasnosrednjovjekovnog Dubrovnika prema seriji Venditiones Cancellariae”, in: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, 41, 2017, 97–108.
“Verses of Faith and Devotion. Seeing, Hearing and Touching Monumental Crucifixes with Inscriptions (12th – 13th centuries)”, in: Studia Ceranea, 6, 2016, 397–421.
“Sveti Jakov Markijski i čudo anđela uz raspelo u crkvi Male braće u Dubrovniku”, in: Peristil, 58, 2015, 5–18.
Book chapters
„Curtain Frames of the Altar Retables and the Early Modern Reframing of the Dalmatian imagines antique“, in: Beyond the Veil. Revealing the Mystery of Curtains, Corinna Mairhanser (ed.), Regensburg, 2024, 55–67.
„Eastern Adriatic Calvary groups, c. 1350–1550: a sketch“, in: Crux Triumphalis – Calvarios y vigas de imaginería entre la Edad Media y el Concilio de Trento, Elena Escuredo, Diana Olivares Martinez i Pablo J. Pomar Rodil (eds.), Artefacta, Leon, 2023, 109–119.
„L’arcaismo nell’architettura religiosa del Trecento a Dubrovnik tra committenza comunale e pratiche edilizie“, in: Architettura medievale: il Trecento. Modelli, tecniche, materiali, Silvia Beltramo and Carlo Tosco (eds.), All'Insegna del Giglio, Sesto Fiorentino, 2022., 229–237 (with Ana Marinković)