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The Strossmayer Gallery – Museo Correr 1942 Exchange

The online exhibition presents the exchange of two Vittore Carpaccio paintings purchased by Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer in 1872 in Milan for today's Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb for the so-called Baptismal Font of Duke Višeslav which had been transferred from the Venetian monastery Il Redentore to the Correr Museum in the year 1853.

Vittore Carpaccio, the so-called Baptismal Font of Duke Višeslav, Independent State of Croatia, Post-WWI Restitution Negotiations

Research for this paper has been carried out in the framework of the HERA project 15.080 TransCultAA (www.transcultaa.eu). This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 649307.