PERMANENT EXHIBITION OF SACRAL ART IN ZADAR

The collection includes stone sculptures, painting, woodcarving and goldsmith's work, crosses, chalices, ciborium, monstrance, relics, pacifikale, canon tables, chains and other icons, embroidery, ecclesiastical vestments and lace.

Benedictines of Zadar has one of the most valuable collections of church in Croatia. The collection includes stone sculptures, painting, woodcarving and goldsmith's work, crosses, chalices, ciborium, monstrance, relics, pacifikale, canon tables, chains and other icons, embroidery, ecclesiastical vestments and lace. Of course, it is difficult to enumerate all the valuable objects are kept and exhibited in the SICU. However, prominent among them should cross - Reliquary (enklopion) from 7/8 century known (incorrectly) as a cross Cikinom; relics of St. Aroncija and St. James, the 9th century, silver reliquaries in the shape of the hand, studded with precious stones, of which the oldest one dating from the 12th century, reliquaries in the form of busts, of which the oldest dates from the 14th century, a multitude of crosses, icons that date back to the 13th century, stone fragments from the 12 and 13 century, Gothic sculptures and paintings by masters such as paint or Carpaccija Palma the Younger.