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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. This monograph brings together for the first time in one place the comprehensive contemporary litera­ture on the cathedral, interpreting this exceptional monu­ment and the entire historical and cultural complex in its regional, Adriatic, and I would say even Medi­terranean context and not just during the emergence of the Baroque building that we see today, but also the earlier phases, which are attested to primarily by the archaeological findings. However, the book is not just a synthesis of contemporary texts and concepts. It brings to light an astonishing number of new, rigorously scientific, analytical insights on numerous problems that were previously only mentioned in passing. In a series of balanced chapters, the authors succeed in creating for the first time a complete and precise reconstruction of the chronology of the construction and furnishing of the Dubrovnik cathedral, with a convincing recon­struction of the individual building phases and an equally convincing interpretation of the genesis of the stylistic features of each of them. The book goes beyond all similar domestic publication projects and establishes a scientific paradigm that, we hope, other authors will follow in their own writing about cathedrals in Split, Trogir, Zadar, Rab, Porec or Zagreb to mention just a few of those that are deserving of the same scientific rigour.