Ljepota lažnog sjaja
Exhibition
"Fool`s Gold Beauty" - exhibition of forgeries from the Police Museum collection

The purpose of the exibition of the forgeries from the collection of the Police Museum conveniently entitlet Fool`s Gold Beauty is to warn about the unscrupulousness of the black market intentionally aimed at deceiving well-intentioned, yet naive and inexpert art buyers.

free entrance
L4 — Multifunctional Hall 4
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Dubrovnik, A Scarred City
„Dubrovnik, A Scarred City“ Exhibition

Exhibition 'Dubrovnik, A Scarred City: The Deconstruction and Restoration of Dubrovnik 1991-2000' was opened on October 1st 2019 in the 2nd hall of the renovated Lazareti Complex as part of a program to commemorate the 28th anniversary of the start of the attack on Dubrovnik.

20 kn
L2 — Multifunctional Hall 2
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Linđovi koncerti
Concert
Linđo Concert

Every Tuesday and Friday at 21:30 h, from August 25th on, enjoy Linđo Concerts in Lazareti.

120 kn
L6 — Linđo
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Mirko Ilić: The Second Before the Catastrophe – Comic Strip, Illustration and Design
Exhibition
Mirko Ilić: The Second Before the Catastrophe – Comic Strip, Illustration and Design

With the exhibition Mirko Ilić: The Second Before the Catasrophe – Comic Strip, Illustration and Design curated by Marko Golub & Dejan Kršić Dubrovnik public will have a chance to find out why is Mirko Ilić after more than four decades still one of the most interesting graphic designers and illustrators and why he is a global star.

slobodan ulaz /free entrance
L4 — Multifunctional Hall 4
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Ignjat Đurđević

(Dubrovnik, 13 February 1675 – Dubrovnik, 21/22 January 1737) Ignjat Đurđević (Ignazio Giorgi) was born in Dubrovnik in a wealthy and prominent family of Giorgi, that was ennobled in the Dubrovnik Republic after the great earthquake of 1667.

He was educated in the Jesuit college and taught by the renowned lexicographer Ardelio Della Bella. He spent some time on the island of Šipan in the service of the Republic. He suddenly left Dubrovnik and moved to Italy where he became a Jesuit priest. For three years he lectured in Jesuit colleges. In 1705, he left the order, returned to Dubrovnik, and became a Benedictine. In 1710, disagreements with the Dubrovnik government “drove” him back to Italy. However, he was homesick so he returned and became an abbot of the Benedictine monastery on the island of Mljet. He died and was buried in the monastery of St. Jacob on Višnjica. His oeuvre combined different genres and themes, but the largest extant part of Ignjat’s work are the few hundred poems that were collected in the manuscript Pjesni razlike (Miscellaneous Poems). He wrote in Croatian and Latin. He expressed deep feelings in the collection Ljuvene pjesni (Love Poems), while in the comic Baroque poem Suze Marunkove (Marunko’s Tears) he cruelly made fun of the Venetians and described, in a free style, the ridiculous peasant Marunko and his desire for beautiful Pavica who was unattainable for him. Život sv. Benedikta (Life of St. Benedict), that was not published until 1984, is considered the best work of Baroque prose in Croatia. He spent more than twenty years writing his most important work, the religious poem that was printed in 1728 – entitled Uzdasi Mandalijene pokornice (Sighs of Repentant Magdalene). Many consider it his most beautiful work with over four thousand octosyllabic lines, that was printed with the collection Pjesni razlike. It is a poem about the sinner and convert Magdalene that continues the tradition started by Ivan Gundulić, the most important Croatian Baroque poet, in his work (Tears of the Prodigal Son). Đurđević’s work Saltijer slovinski (Slavic psalms) contains translations or paraphrases of the psalms of King David (150 psalms). Except literature, he also studied history and literary works of his contemporaries, and became one of the first Dubrovnik biographers. In the work Vitae et carmina, he collected biographies of several hundred prominent writers from Dubrovnik. He is also thought to have written the manuscript Fizikalno-matematička pitanja (Physical-mathematical questions), based on Aristotle’s peripatetic philosophy, while the history of astronomy notes his manuscripts entitled Kronografija and O pravim i točnim gibanjima Sunca i Mjeseca. In 1730 in Venice, Ignjat published the book Sveti Pavao apostol brodolomac (The castaway St. Paul the Apostle), where he presented convincing evidence that St. Paul was shipwrecked on the Croatian island of Mljet and not Malta. This work by Đurđević caused numerous polemics.