13.11.2025
Lecture announcement
Next Saturday, November 22nd, starting at 5:30 p.m., in the multimedia hall, Prof. Dr. Sc. Predrag Marković will hold an interesting lecture about the Šibenik Cathedral entitled “St. James’ Cathedral from Intention to Chance (and Back) – the Genesis of a Masterpiece in the Light of Everyday Life”.
Marković was born in Pula in 1961. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 1988 with a degree in comparative literature and art history. He has been employed at the Department of Art History since 1989, and in 1995 he defended his master’s thesis at the same faculty, and in 2002 he defended his doctoral thesis, “Šibenik Cathedral at the Crossroads of the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”. In 2003 he was elected to the position of assistant professor at the Department of Romanesque and Gothic Art, and in 2009 to the position of associate professor. He has been participating in teaching at the Faculty of Philosophy since the very beginning, and since 2004 he has independently led the mandatory course “Art of the Gothic Age”. He also taught at the teaching department of the Academy of Fine Arts and at the interfaculty study “Landscape Design” at the Faculty of Agriculture. Since 2001, he has been involved in postgraduate teaching at the Department. He is one of the creators of the new study program at the Department – undergraduate and graduate studies in 2005, and the new postgraduate doctoral study program introduced in 2007. Since 1990, he has continuously participated in projects under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Igor Fisković, and since 2007, he has independently led the project Representative Sacred Architecture of Adriatic Croatia from the 13th to the 16th Century. He was the head of the postgraduate study at the Department from 2005 to 2008. He is a lecturer at the interdisciplinary doctoral study program “Medieval Studies” at the Faculty of Philosophy, where he also serves as the deputy head of the study, and at the same faculty he also participates in the doctoral study program “Croatian Culture” as a lecturer and expert advisor for art history. He is a member of the editorial board of the professional journal Kvartal at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. Since autumn 2008, he has been collaborating on the postgraduate study program “Museology and Conservation” in Ljubljana. He has been the secretary of the scientific conference “Days of Cvit Fisković” since 2000.