Radoslav Tomić – IN MEMORIAM

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On Sunday, March 17, 2024, Radoslav Tomić, an esteemed art historian, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a foremost authority on Renaissance and Baroque figurative art in Croatia, passed away in Split at the age of 68. Tomić’s distinguished career began in Split, where he worked as a museum curator and cultural heritage conservator before becoming a researcher at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. From 1997, he was a lecturer in Baroque art at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zadar. In 2010, he became a full member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (HAZU). Tomić’s scholarly contributions include influential exhibition projects on the artistic heritage of the Kotor Diocese (2009), Venetian painting in Dalmatia (2011), and Italian Baroque painting in Croatia (2015). He wrote several books on Baroque altars in Dalmatia (1995), Split’s painting heritage under Venetian rule (2002), and Lotto’s portrait of Toma Niger (2021). His comprehensive work Artistic Heritage of the Zadar Archdiocese examines early modern painting and sculpture in the Zadar diocese. His final book, Znakovi identiteta. Sveci zaštitnici u umjetnosti 17. i 18. stoljeća u Dalmaciji, Boki kotorskoj i Dubrovačkoj Republici (Signs of identity: Patron saints in the art of the 17th and 18th centuries in Dalmatia, Boka Kotorska, and the Republic of Dubrovnik, 2021), offers a synthesis of his scholarly endeavours.