Dora Horvat

Assistant
P. +3851 6112 740
E. dhorvat / ipu.hr
B. CRORIS profile

Born in 1996 in Zagreb. After completing the School for Classical Ballet and the School of Applied Arts and Design (Graphic Design Department), she enrolled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where she studied Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2017, she began a parallel graduate program pursuing a single-major degree in Medieval Archaeology and a double-major degree in Anthropology and Art History (research track, module: Art of Antiquity and the Middle Ages). In 2023, she enrolled in the doctoral program in Art History, Cultural Heritage, and Visual Culture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science in Zagreb.

Her research interests include Gothic painting and medieval luxury textiles – particularly those of Italian, Byzantine, and Islamic origin – as well as their representation. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation titled Representations of Fabrics in Gothic Painting in Dalmatia (mentor: prof. Nikolina Maraković, PhD).

Since May 2025, she has been employed as a research assistant at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb as a member of the project From local to regional. Art of Adriatic Croatia from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century, led by Darka Bilić, PhD.