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    The Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary in Zadar, Croatia comprises a church, bell tower, chapter house, and cloister. It was founded in the 9th century and received donations that allowed for expansion over the centuries. The church was reconstructed in the 1970s after being destroyed in bombings in 1943-1944. The complex now houses a permanent exhibition of religious art from the nunnery and cathedral treasuries, chronicling Zadar's sacral art from the 7th century to Renaissance and Baroque periods.

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    The Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary in Zadar, Croatia comprises a church, bell tower, chapter house, and cloister. It was founded in the 9th century and received donations that allowed for expansion over the centuries. The church was reconstructed in the 1970s after being destroyed in bombings in 1943-1944. The complex now houses a permanent exhibition of religious art from the nunnery and cathedral treasuries, chronicling Zadar's sacral art from the 7th century to Renaissance and Baroque periods.

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    The Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary in Zadar, Croatia comprises a church, bell tower, chapter house, and cloister. It was founded in the 9th century and received donations that allowed for expansion over the centuries. The church was reconstructed in the 1970s after being destroyed in bombings in 1943-1944. The complex now houses a permanent exhibition of religious art from the nunnery and cathedral treasuries, chronicling Zadar's sacral art from the 7th century to Renaissance and Baroque periods.

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    The Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary in Zadar, Croatia comprises a church, bell tower, chapter house, and cloister. It was founded in the 9th century and received donations that allowed for expansion over the centuries. The church was reconstructed in the 1970s after being destroyed in bombings in 1943-1944. The complex now houses a permanent exhibition of religious art from the nunnery and cathedral treasuries, chronicling Zadar's sacral art from the 7th century to Renaissance and Baroque periods.

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    Benedictine nunnery of St.

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    The complex of the Benedictine nunnery of St. Mary comprises the church, the campanile, the chapter house and the cloister with three wings. The eastern wing still serves the original purpose, while the other two accommodate the Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art. According to existing records, the nunnery was founded in the second half of the ninth century by Cika, a noblewoman, daughter of the powerful local nobleman Madije. She also became its first abbess. The Croatian king Petar Kreimir IV donated to Cika the small church of St. Mary, which was brought down and a new, proto-Romanesque one built on the same site in 1091. The latter, an aisled basilica, has been mainly preserved to date in spite of considerable reconstruction on two occasions. In 1507 it was enlarged by the addition of two bays, a new Renaissance front, a circular gable and the southern front. The matroneums, galleries above the aisles in Venetian Renaissance style, the work of local masters from Split, Korcula and Zadar, date from the same period. In the second half of the eighteenth century (1742-44) the interior was radically redesigned in late Baroque style and richly stuccoed. The original three-apse sanctuary was brought down and a new, square one built, with a round tambour and dome. The matroneums were redesigned accordingly. In the mid-nineteenth century the interior was renovated again in classicist style. The church was almost totally destroyed in the 1943-44 air raids, and it was reconstructed in the nineteen-seventies. Aware of the importance of the nunnery, with Cikas daughter Vekenega as the abbess, the first Hungaro-Croatian king, Koloman, endowed the construction of the campanile and the chapter house, the first High Romanesque buildings in Dalmatia, in 1105, after victory and the conclusion of peace, as commemorated by the inscription on the cornice on the first floor of the campanile. The kings name is also found on four capitals in the room on the first floor supporting the ribs of the groin vault, one of the oldest of its type in Europe. Frescoes depicting scenes from Christs life date from the same period. The tomb of abbess Vekenega, in the form of a Romanesque biforium, stands by the southern wall of the chapter house; the latter has a barrel vault with cross-ribs supporting the columns connected with blind arches. After reconstruction, the western and northern nunnery wings have been used for the Permanent Exhibition of Religious Art. The majority of the exhibits derive from the treasuries of the nunnery and of the cathedral. They present in a chronological sequence the wealth and variety of Zadars sacral art, from a seventh century votive cross to Romanesque reliquaries in the form of caskets and hands, processional crosses etc. The many objects produced by Zadars goldsmiths in the Gothic period (fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth centuries), and their excellence, attract particular attention. The high class of foreign and local donors is confirmed by paintings of the best Venetian Renaissance and Baroque painters such as V. Carpaccio and J. Palma. The ground floor houses a collection of stone monuments with important sculptures from the eight to the sixteenth centuries, and a facsimile reconstruction of the church of Sv. Nediljica from the first half of the eleventh century. The new building of the Archaeological Museum was completed in the nineteen-seventies on the northern side of Ulica (Street) Kozicica Benje. It displays archaeological monuments from Zadar and northern Dalmatia in three collections: prehistory (second floor), antiquity (first floor) and preRomanesque (ground floor).

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