John of Kastav (Latin : Johannes de Castua; Croatian : Ivan iz Kastva; Slovene : Janez iz Kastva) was a 15th-century Istrian artist, a native of Kastav (Croatia).
He painted the frescoes in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Hrastovlje, which included a famous Danse Macabre . [1] [2] According to the inscription, which identifies the artist as magister Johannes de Castua, the frescoes were commissioned by Tomić Vrhović, the parish priest of Kubed, and completed in 1490. [3]
The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The reminder of death's inevitability became a theme in art, especially after The Black Death, as death and destruction seeped into European culture. The Danse Macabre represented a deviation from traditional Medieval Catholic thought, by romanticizing death, and in some cases, humorizing it. Instead of fearing the fires of hell, the concept of death became almost too mainstream to be stigmatized so. The potent morbidity of famine, war, and plague caused a rift between the Catholic Church and the people, as their prayers went unanswered. Regardless of piety, class, power, gender, or age - people were struck down. The vulnerability, and mortality, of humanity was unavoidable. Death is, intrinsically, a collective human experience.
Istria is the largest peninsula within the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Kvarner Gulf. It is shared by three countries: Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy. Croatia encapsulates most of the Istrian peninsula with its Istria County.
Piero della Francesca, originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes The History of the True Cross in the church of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.
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"Istrian scale" refers both to a "unique" musical scale of folk music genres from Istria and Kvarner which use the style. It is named for the Istrian peninsula. Istrian folk music is based on a distinctive six-tone musical scale, and the peninsula's two-part, slightly nasal singing. The two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale, a traditional singing practice characteristic of the Istrian region and the north Adriatic coastal area and islands, was inscribed in UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009.
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The sopile is an ancient traditional woodwind instrument of Croatia, similar to the oboe or shawm. It is used in the regions of Kvarner, Kastav, Vinodol, Island Krk, and Istria. Sopile are always played in pairs so there are great and small or thin and fat sopila. Sopile are musical instrument of sound very interesting possibilities and very piercing special sound. This is replicated in more modern examples of Kvarner music through use of modified double reed clarinet or soprano Dulzaina. Sopile are, by "mih" and "šurle," today very popular in folk tradition of Istria, Kvarner and Island Krk.
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Mijo Mirković, also known by his pen names Miho and Mate Balota, was a prominent Croatian poet, novelist and economist. Considered one of the most prominent Croatian poets of the 20th century and often credited as the greatest Istrian poet, he was called "the greatest Istrian after Labin's Matija Vlačić" by Tone Peruško.
Bunić is a village in Lika, Croatia, located in the Udbina municipality, between Korenica and Lički Osik. The population is 133.
Croatian art describes the visual arts in Croatia, and art by Croatian artists from prehistoric times to the present. In Early Middle Ages, Croatia was an important centre for art and architecture in south eastern Europe. There were many Croatian artists during the Medieval period, and the arts flourished during the Renaissance. Later styles in Croatia included Baroque and Rococo.
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The Italian irredentism in Istria was the political movement supporting the unification to Italy, during the 19th and 20th centuries, of the peninsula of Istria. It is considered closely related to the Italian irredentism in Trieste and Fiume, two cities bordering the peninsula.
The Long Hair of Death is a 1964 Italian horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti. It stars British actress Barbara Steele in the roles of Helen Rochefort and Mary, Italian actor George Ardisson as Kurt Humboldt, and Polish actress Halina Zalewska in a dual role as Adele Karnstein and her daughter Lisabeth. It is set in a 15th-century feudal castle, and the nearby village.
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