Nikola Božidarević

Nikola Božidarević
Nikola Božidarević
	Triptych Dominican Church of Ragusa
Born	c. 1460; Kotor, Ragusan
Died	26 November 1517 (age 56–57); Dubrovnik
Other names	Nicholas of Ragusa
Known for	Painting
Works	Triptih in the chapel of the family Bundić; Annunciation of the polyptych Bogorodica and saints; The altar picture of the Đorđić family;

Nikola Božidarević (pronounced [bɔʒi-ˈdə:rɔvitɕˈ]; more commonly Nicholas of Ragusa (Italian: Nicolò Raguseo, Latin: Nicolaus Rhagusinus, Croatian: Nikola Dubrovčanin c. 1460 – 26 November 1517/18), was a painter from Dalmatia at the turn of the Gothic in the Renaissance.

Life

The son of the painter Božidar Vlatković of Slano, he was probably born in Kotor (Montenegro) around 1460.[1] He was mentioned in 1475 as a fresco painter at the Rector's Palace and in 1476 as a pupil of painter Petar Ognjanović, whose workshop in 1477 was based on the doctrine of Venice.

He was a hard-working and greatly sought-after man, as can be seen from numerous documents and contracts kept in the Dubrovnik archives. Monasteries like the Franciscans in Cavtat and the Dubrovnik Dominicans commissioned works from him, as did noble families and individuals and some churches. After a long stay in Italy, he reappears in Dubrovnik in 1494, where he and his father concluded an agreement for polyptych on Gradić's altar in the Dubrovnik Dominican church.

Only four paintings are still in existence from his entire career: a triptych on a side altar in the Bumdevič Chapel of the Dominican monastery in Dubrovnik, The Annunciation in the art gallery of the Dominican church, the Durdevič family's altarpiece in the capitulary hall of the Dominican monastery, and another triptych in the Franciscan church on Lopud has also been ascribed to him.[2]

Some modern author credit Božidarević's work as a part of Croatian art.[3]

References

Cvetnić, Sanja. "The Triptych of the Bundić Family by Nikola Božidarević and the Iconography of Mary in the Sun" (PDF). Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Institute of Art History. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
Radovinovič, Radovan (1999), The Croatian Adriatic, p. 363, Naklada Naprijed, ISBN 953-178-097-8
Grendler, Paul F. (1999). Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Scribner's. pp. 108-109. ISBN 978-0-684-80511-5.

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[1] Cvetnić, Sanja. "The Triptych of the Bundić Family by Nikola Božidarević and the Iconography of Mary in the Sun" (PDF). Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb. Institute of Art History. Retrieved 8 June 2019.

[2] Radovinovič, Radovan (1999), The Croatian Adriatic, p. 363, Naklada Naprijed, ISBN 953-178-097-8

[3] Grendler, Paul F. (1999). Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. New York: Scribner's. pp. 108-109. ISBN 978-0-684-80511-5.