Hidden Romanesque Beauty

As a result of explorations, in book some fifty monuments has been documented which can be convincingly attributed to the Romanesque period in both museum collections and in the field. Most important part of book is dedicated to Rudina sculpture. Book mainly can be used by historians and art historians of medieval life and culture in Europe. As the professional literature was until recently dominated by a belief that in the Continental Croatia there were no significant figural sculpture before the Gothic, book has demonstrated how, through analysis of the preserved monuments, one can shed more light on that period. The result is the comprehensive and systematic presentation of the figural sculpture in Continental Croatia in the 12th and the 13th century. Along with a morphological, stylistic, and iconographic analysis of all so far known monuments, the complete corpus of the Romanesque figural sculpture Continental Croatia has been produced. By a comparison with monuments of sculpture from other European centers better understanding of the original context has been provided and a new view into the development of the Romanesque sculpture in Continental Croatia has been presented.