Museum
Meštrović Gallery
Seaside villa-studio built by a sculptor and later given, with its collection, to his homeland.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Meštrović Gallery in Split follows sculptor Ivan Meštrović from a poor sheep-breeder's son apprenticed to a Split stonemason at sixteen to an artist courted by patrons in Vienna, Rome, Paris and Chicago, praised by Auguste Rodin himself. It traces the decade he spent buying land and building this seaside villa through the nineteen twenties, moving in with his wife in nineteen thirty-two, only to leave for good within a decade as war closed in. Stand in what was once his private studio, among the rooms he designed around his own collection.
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