Dominican Friar Serafin Marija Crijević as Baroque Collagist and Draughtsman

Dubrovački dominikanac Serafin Marija Crijević (Dubrovnik, 1686. – Dubrovnik, 1759.) dosada je poznat kao biograf i povjesničar. Njegovu svestranost u ovom radu proširuje se i na likovno područje. Prikupio je impozantnu zbirku crteža te slika svetaca i blaženika dominikanskog reda iz suvremenih i starijih publikacija na njemačkom, talijanskom, francuskom i španjolskom jeziku, a one koje su nedostajale, sam je izradio. Format ove dvije svojevrsne male enciklopedije dominikanske ikonografije uvjetovale su francuske grafike dominikanskih svetaca i blaženika, a radi se o skupini od šesnaest grafika francuskog slikara i grafičara Henrija Bonnarta (Pariz, 1642. – Pariz, 1711.) i njegova sina Jean-Baptistea Henrija Bonnarta (Pariz, 1678. – Pariz, 1726.).Dominican friar from Dubrovnik Serafin Marija Crijević (Dubrovnik, 1686 – Dubrovnik, 1759) has thus far been known as biographer and historiographer. Findings presented in the paper extend the limits of his versatile activity to the field of visual arts. Crijević assembled an impressive collection of drawings and images of saints and blessed members of the Dominican order originating from contemporary and earlier German, Italian, French and Spanish publications, and drew those that were not present in his collection. The form of these two small “encyclopaedias” of Dominican iconography was determined by French prints of Dominican saints and blessed, more precisely the group of sixteen prints produced by the French painter and graphic artist Henri Bonnart (Paris, 1642 – Paris, 1711) and his son Jean-Baptiste Henri Bonnart (Paris, 1678 – Paris, 1726)