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Classical Themes as Iconographic Motifs in Historical Allegorical Painting. Examples by Gustav Klimt in the Rijeka Municipal Theatre and Ivan Tišov at the University Library in Zagreb

In the 19th-century humanistic education, Antiquity was considered to be the artistic and ethical peak of Western civilization. Based on ancient mythological and historical themes and motifs and generating new iconographic interpretation adaptet to a wider spectrum of activities and developed as a result of strong civic culture, historical allegorical paintings as a genere reached its climax at the turn of the century. Public architecture most often served as the framework for such allegorical representations whose content and messages conveyed the spirit of Antiquity. The Municipal Theatre in Rijeka and the University Library in Zagreb as the examples of historical allegorical paintings commissioned for Croatian public institutions will serve as the basis for discussing allegory as genre, provide iconographic analysis and iconological interpretation, an the manner in which it transmits ancient culture, its continuity and concrete and symbolic presence in the context of civic culture and cultural intitutions at the turn of the century in Croatia.

historical allegorical painting, classical motifs, Gustav Klimt, Theatre, Rijeka, Ivan Tišov, University Library, Zagreb

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