Statue of Dora Krupić in Stone Gate
August Šenoa‘s novel “The Goldsmith’s Treasure” tells the story of a goldsmith named Krupić and his daughter Dora, who lived on Kamenita (Stone) Street.
Novel The Goldsmith’s Treasure, published in 1871, is considered Croatia’s first real historical novel. It is about a 16th-century love story involving a nobleman and a town girl called Dora, the beautiful daughter of a goldsmith. Dora ends up being poisoned by a local barber because she refused his marriage proposal. A bronze sculpture was commissioned in her honour in 1929.
The statue of Dora in the niche on the west side of the gate was created by the modern artist Ivo Kerdić.
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Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is situated on the slopes of Medvednica mountain, in the Carpathian Basin, and on the banks of the Sava river. Zagreb has a rich and diverse history, culture, and architecture that reflect its long and turbulent past.
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Yugoslav architecture emerged in the first decades of the 20th century before the establishment of the state; during this period several South Slavic creatives, enthused by the possibility of statehood, organized a series of art exhibitions in Serbia in the name of a shared Slavic identity. Following governmental centralization after the 1918 creation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, this initial bottom-up enthusiasm began to fade. Yugoslav architecture became more and more dictated by an increasingly concentrated national authority that sought to establish a unified state identity. Beginning in the 1920s, Yugoslav architects began to advocate for architectural modernism, viewing the style as the logical extension of progressive national narratives.
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