Darka Bilić PhD
Biogrraphy
Born in Trogir in 1976. Graduated in Art History and Italian Language and Literature from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2002.
She earned her PhD Degree from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2010 with a thesis titled Engineers and civil architecture in the 18th century Venetian Dalmatia and Albania under the supervision of acad. Radoslav Tomić.
From 2001 to 2004, she worked for the Croatian Conservation Institute on the conservation and restoration research projects of a series of historic buildings.
With the stipend of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic she was a visiting scholar in 2004, 2005 and 2007 at the University of Venice and the University of Padova conducting research in the State Archives of Venice under the supervision of prof. Alessandro Ballarin, prof. Elisabetta Molteni and prof. Giuliana Mazzi.
In 2014 she attended 55th course on Palladian architecture - Palladio workshop, curated by Guido Beltramini and Howard Burns and organized by Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza (Italy).
In 2015 with stipend CampusWorld she was a visiting scolar at Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Edile e Architettura of Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona (Italy).
She participated in 2014-2015 research seminar From Riverbed to Seashore: Art on the Move in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean led by Alina Payne, part of the Connecting Art Histories initiative by the Getty Foundation.
In 2016, as Associate of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University she researched the topic Lodging Along the Trade Routes in Bosnian Pashadom in Early Modern Period. As a Berenson Fellow at Villa I Tatti. The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in 2018 she focused on the research of Lodging and Commerce in Early Modern Mediterranean in the Light of Cultural Exchange.
She focuses on history of early modern architecture on the eastern Adriatic coast in broader geographical and cultural context with special interest in exploring the role of the Venetian Republic in shaping of built environment. Her studies are part of the project The architectural heritage of Adriatic Croatia in the early modern period through written historical sources currently in progress at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, Croatia.
In February 2024 she was elected on the scientific position of Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Art History.
Bibliography (selection)
Original scientific and professional papers
Izgradnja zvonika katedrale u Makarskoj, u: Prilozi povijesti umjetnosti u Dalmaciji (u postupku objavljivanja)
Umjetnički kontakti između Terraferme, Istre i Dalmacije tijekom 17. i 18. stoljeća, u: Kvartal, VI, 3‒4, 2009., 80-81.
Zidine oko Palače, u: Kvartal, IV, 4, 2007.
Generalni inventar državnih građevina u Dalmaciji iz 1789. godine, u: Radovi Instituta za povijest umjetnosti, 31, 2007., 179-188.
Muzej sakralne umjetnosti u Trogiru, u: Kvartal, IV, 4, 2005., 35-37.
Crkva sv. Petra i Pavla u Šarengradu ‒ rezultati istraživanja (s Kristinom Vujica), u: Godišnjak zaštite spomenika kulture Hrvatske, 28, 2004., 99-109.
Book chapters
Katedrala u Makarskoj: dokumenti o povijesti izgradnje i povijesno-umjetnička valorizacija: Sic ars deprenditur arte, Zbornik u čast Vladimira Markovića, (ur.) Sanja Cvetnić, Milan Pelc, Daniel Premerl, Institut za povijest umjetnosti, Zagreb, 2009., 45-66.
Other works
Kataloške jedinice, u: Zagovori svetom Tripunu ‒ Blago Kotorske biskupije, (ur.) Radoslav Tomić, katalog izložbe, Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb, 2009.
Upravna zgrada šećerane, Rijeka, Krešimirova 28 (s Vladimirom Markovićem, Krasankom Majer, Petrom Puhmajerom), elaborat konzervatorsko-restauratorskih istraživanja, sv. I‒V, 2006.