Museum
Meštrovićeve Crikvine - Kaštilac
Walnut-relief chapel where a sculptor spent thirty-five years carving one Christ story.
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This guide to Meštrovićeve Crikvine, Split's Holy Cross Chapel, follows sculptor Ivan Meštrović's thirty-four-year Life of Christ cycle, carved out of chronological order between a first walnut relief in 1916 and a wartime imprisonment that sent him into exile. It traces how he reworked the same faces and gestures across attempts, and why in 1939 he bought a ruined sixteenth-century farmhouse to finally house the panels, insisting on the old name Crikvina over a grander alternative. You'll see the drawings and studies that survive in his own gallery across town.
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