Dominican Friar Serafin Marija Crijevi？ as Baroque Collagist and Draughtsman

Sa？etak Dominican friar from Dubrovnik Serafin Marija Crijevi？ (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. Crijevi？ 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)